ASUS X99-A USB 3.1 Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 14.05.15Page:
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
The X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) from ASUS is an overall really good board, that comes with a rather affordable price tag, additional to the X99-A ASUS has equippid this board with two USB 3.1 ports and a small hub with two extra USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0 connector. Compared to the predecessor the motherboard maker changed the color scheme from black/gold to black/white, which in our opinion is quite a bit better looking. Despite the attractive price there are also features such as beefed up audio. What actually helps ASUS save a few bucks with this board is the fact that there are no heatpipes connecting the different cooling blocks. |
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Design - USB 3.1 - Transfer Express Hub - Layout |
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| Layout | + | - | |
| The ASUS X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) layout has been well thought. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. There is also a debug display which is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. A closer look at the full-size PCIe x16 slots reveals that slot number two and three are right next to one another. This means that you can install up to three dual-slot graphics cards. We like the fact, that there is a SATA Express port as well as an additional M.2 x2 slot. These additional ports greatly add to the flexibility of this board. | - Angled SATA connectors
- 4 x Full-Size PCI Express slots - Space around the CPU socket - M.2 - SATA Express |
- PCIe x16 no. 2 and 3 right next to eachother | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Let's have closer look at overall 3D performance. Calculating the average of all 3D benchmarks we ran, we see that this board comes in sixth overall. Concerning the average of all 2D benchmarks we ran, this board again scores a sixth place out of ten models tested. On another note we had a look at power consumption and in this case we clearly see that we have a board here that has been equipped with quite a few additional chips. But nevertheless in case of load power consumption the result is very good specially in load stays jusft after X99-A in second place. | - Power consumption load | - 3DMark Fire Strike
Extreme - SiSoft Sandra 1 |
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| Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
| As you might have expected from ASUS you get an excellent BIOS which offers not only a boatload of tuning and tweaking options but is also very easy to use. Finding the right menus in a recent ASUS BIOS is not difficult at all, which is not only thanks to the graphical user interface but also comes from the well-thought structure. | - Clear arrangement | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Should you be looking for a reasonably priced X99 motherboard with the latewst USB 3.1 technology as well as plenty of other features, then you should have a look at this particular model. Chekcing prices we find this model listed for 253 Euro over at Geizhals. | - Enthusiast - Workstation |
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| Rating | |||
| We give the ASUS X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) very good 4.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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