Connectors and I/O

ASUS equipped the X99 Deluxe II with eight angled SATA ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and all of them ports are natively wired to the X99 PCH. Apart from that there are two straight SATA 6Gbps ports. Other than that you also get two SATA Express ports, two U.2 connectors and an M.2 x4 slot, whereas the M.2 will have to be installed perpendicular to the motherboard, supported by a metal frame. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons as well as a debug LED on this board, which is definitely something you can expect from todays high-end board. What's standard since quite a few generations is the MemOK buttons which has proven useful quite a few times.

In total there are six fan headers on the X99 Deluxe which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped high-end or workstation with fresh air. They have been located close to the CPU as well as spread over the board. Other than that it's a good thing that all of them feature four pins, which allows for rpm regulation in BIOS as well as under Windows.




Looking at the external connectors at the I/O-panel we see a BIOS flash back button, three USB 3.1 Type-A and one Type-C connector, four USB 3.0 as well as four USB 2.0 ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel. There are also three connectors to attach WiFi antennas.

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Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 3 - Features	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 4 - Layout	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 19 - Tomb Raider
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 21 - Thief
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 22 - Right Mark Audio Analyzer
Page 9 - 3DMark	Page 23 - BCLK Overclocking
Page 10 - 3DMark 11	Page 24 - Power Consumption
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 25 - Performance Rating
Page 12 - PC Mark 8	Page 26 - Price Comparison
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1	Page 27 - Conclusion
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