CPU Cooler Fit & Included Accessories
CPU Cooler Fit
To test the amount of space surrounding the CPU socket, we mounted a Noctua NH-D15 cooler to the CPU socket. Both a overly large CPU air coolers, sporting a dual fan construction and two huge vertical cooling towers.
Noctua NH-D15
With the NH-D15 oriented to blow air towards the board's rear panel, the cooler does not come into contact with any of the memory modules or heat sinks surrounding the CPU socket. The one caveat was with using a video card in the primary PCIe slot. The video card fits without issue as long as there was not an overly large backplate on it. The card would need to be seated in the secondary slot if the back side of the PCB contains large protrusions, however.
The side views illustrate that the memory slot layout is designed to be usable with even the largest CPU coolers, as long as the cooler design adheres to the Intel design spec. The fit between the front fan and the front memory modules could be tight, depending on the fan seat height and memory module heat sink height.
Noctua SecuFirm2™ mounting system
Noctua's SecuFirm2™ mounting system is a good method to quickly determine how well the CPU socket laid out to accommodate a larger cooler. The mount easily fits within the constraints of the upper and lower memory modules as well as the heat sinks to the left and right of the CPU socket.
Included Accessories
GIGABYTE includes in everything you need to get the board up and running.
GIGABYTE includes a detailed installation guide and user manual, as well as an install disk containing all drivers necessary to get the board up and running. Also included are an Ultra Durable-branded and Gaming Series-branded metallic case badges.
The rear panel shield is a chrome colored with red text and icons for easy reading and identification of the rear panel ports. The unit also contained embedded LEDS along the top of the face, illuminating the rear panel shield with the board actively powered. The port text on the rear panel shield reacts to the LED glow, making for even easier port identification. The power cable for the rear panel shield LEDs is a 2-pin connector that plugs into the LED power port to the lower left of the rear panel of the motherboard.
GIGABYTE included a total of six 6Gb/s rated SATA cables for use with the integrated port. The cables are sheathed with a dense black plastic sleeving and have integrated port locks with a mix of straight and 90 degree port connectors.
For multi-GPU use, GIGABYTE includes two-way, three-way, extended three-way, and four-way NVIDIA SLI cables for board support of up to a quad-SLI configuration, as well as a single two way CrossFire bridge connector.
To provide extra power to the 8-pin ATX12V connect while overclocking the system, GIGABYTE included a 1-to-3 ATX12V power cable. You simple plug the male end into the board and plug three male 8-pin ATX12V-style power connectors from the PSU into the cable's female connectors. Even though GIGABYTE recommends using this cable when attempting to overclock the board, we found that the board overclocking was unaffected without it.
Great Review Morry, I like
Great Review Morry, I like all the features that GIGABYTE has laid into this sucker. Support for 128 gigs is awesome. I really wish Asus would have had more x99 boards with this support, especially for the prices you pay on this platform.
I am hoping you guys can do some reviews on the lower end X99 Boards. MSI X99 SLI plus and some other boards have been dropping in price like rocks sometimes way below 200 bones!!
Awesome review, but I was
Awesome review, but I was never into the whole “gamerish aesthetics”.
Sir Morry, could you please review the ASUS X99-E WS MOBO, I read several reviews, but IDK, somehow your reviews is just complete or perfect, IDK.
I once chatted with Josh to ask him to inform you and the PCper team, but you guys are probably playing with the “unreleased” 390x 🙂
but seriously, Could you please do review it, at least for the sake of this kitties
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I’ve been in contact with
I've been in contact with ASUS, we should be getting something from them "soon". You'll likley see a review up on it in the July timeframe (maybe)…
Thank you very much sir, July
Thank you very much sir, July is actually perfect since it’s the time I’ll be ordering my parts. Also, I know I’m asking too much but reading through the “[Official] ASUS X99-E WS Owner’s thread”, I found out that some xeon cpu’s are unlocked, if you could also investigate such a phenomenon, I’ll be more than grateful.
Thank you, again. 🙂