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hey what's up guys Jase $0.02 here and CES was a lot of fun but of course it's time to get back to work now as you may or may not recall a few months ago I built myself a new test bench which I called Project bloodshed you know because the coolant made it look like blood and stuff now I had a pretty sweet red and gunmetal theme going on but unfortunately the x99 deluxe didn't really match all that well so when asrock contacted me asking if I was interested in taking a look at one of their new x99 motherboards I was all over that x99 an ex killer fatality board it is definitely sexy piece of hardware with its improved radiator support and legendary noise optimization the new define r54 fractal design is a PC builders dream come true click the link in the description to learn more know motherboards are one of those things that I don't really feel that get enough attention I mean sure raw CPU power video cards Ram and all that stuff is direct contributors to the overall PC speed and experience but let's not forget that none of those devices can communicate without a motherboard and seeing that the motherboard is also tasked with things like power delivery to the CPU PCI Express components hard drive communication fan control overclocking it's something that needs to be paid attention to now when it comes to choosing the right motherboard trust me manufacturers know this which is why they are keeping they keep packing more and more features to try and entice buyers to notice their particular models now asrock is one of those brands that I don't feel is really given enough regard when it comes to do-it-yourselfers in fact when I purchased my asrock z77 OC formula back in 2013 I really was concerned that I was making a mistake since that brand really doesn't carry as much prestige as say Asus MSI or gigabyte but man the more I played around with the board the more I realized that asrock really does take what they do serious now I could easily spend all day going over the specs of the fatality x99 killer so instead I'm gonna go ahead and focus on some of the main points that I think make this board really interesting now first off many x99 motherboard is currently only support up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 but the killer supports up to 128 of ECC and non ECC Ram 3000 megahertz plus now I already hear you J why would we want a hundred 20 gigabytes of RAM that's so overkill for gaming well you're right but remember the x99 platform is already overkill for gaming and really appeals more to the content creator and editors and other workstation grade builders many of which can and do benefit for more RAM so that's one thing that I love about this board is the fact that it contains things that appeal to both sides of that spectrum making it easy to have in an all-encompassing build suitable for both gamers and workstation needs overclocking on this board it's pretty straightforward due to the very easy to navigate UEFI BIOS we're now getting all crazy and over complicated like some other brands on the market but not only is the BIOS easy to navigate the power delivery is up to par as well with 60 amp power choke snitch ik on 12 K platinum Japanese capacitors 12 phase power delivery and oversized heat sinks keeping everything nice and cool now we'll definitely be overclocking this bad boy and giving some feedback at the end of the video regarding how it all went especially compared to the x99 deluxe motherboard which it's replacing now something else worth noting on this motherboard is that it has got dual Gigabit LAN one being the intel i to 1/8 v and the other being the qualcomm atheros killer e 20 200 for gaming now they advertise that the e 2200 is capable of prioritizing gaming packets which increase gaming speed and reduce the lag and actually prioritizes all the information based on the games that you're playing I have no way to test this claim but at the very least having two ethernet NICs is good to have a backup in case one fails so there is that now for audio the x99 killer features purity sound 2.0 and 7.1 channel HD audio output has the realtek ALC 1150 codec and if you're like me and happen to be running some power-hungry cans for audio it also features a power headphone amplifier that can drive up to 600 ohms of impedance and since high-end audio is becoming more and more affordable headphone jack like that is actually pretty nice to see now when it comes to graphics this board does feature three PCI Express gen3 16x slots and to gin to 1x slots along with SLI and crossfire support now since this motherboard does not have any sort of PL x chip can become a little bit confusing on how the lanes operate when using a 5820k CPU with 28 lanes versus the 40 lanes found on the 59 30 K and the 59 60 X so rather than Oprah over complicate this video by mentioning all the various combinations of Gen 2 and Gen 3 you Lane utilization per CPU I'm just gonna refer you to the motherboards manufacturing specs and their website to figure out how it's gonna work for you but one thing worth noting is that three ways crossfire and SLI is not supported on the 5820k which is kind of a bummer because it could if it had PL X which has actually been very popular on the z97 series allowing many brands to offer up to four-way SLI or crossfire on CPUs that otherwise couldn't handle it now for storage the killer features 10 state a 3 6 gigabit per second ports raid 0 1 5 10 and Intel Rapid Storage 13 but they also have this thing called HDD saver basically who power your hard drives off the motherboard instead of the power supply allowing you to control when they turn on and off via software now they say it's for added security and longer lifespan of hard drives letting them without letting them spin at all times personally this is something I don't really find all that interesting I don't keep important storage on my local machine and I don't know how useful you guys would find that but it is a function in here and unfortunately the downside of it is you have to use a pretty ugly proprietary cable which is not sleeved or anything but as rock is really proud of this function so I may have figured it's at least worth mentioning if you find that to be kind of cool now also worth mentioning as it does have ultra m2 sockets supporting SATA 3 6 gigabit per second as well as an MDOT 2 PCI Express gen3 by 4 for 32 gigabits per second data transfer rate now as I mentioned I could go all day on the features packed into this board I mean just look at the box there's a lot going on there in fact if I picked up this box say off the Micro Center shelf I would probably be a bit confused to what to look at there's a lot going on but I mean it's got high-density power connectors for a better power connections to ounce copper PCB layers making it very heavy along with a very sexy black sapphire PCB old-school ps2 connectors for gamers who love their lag free old-school mice and keyboards a fatality Mouse port for custom polling rates 125 Hertz to a thousand Hertz the thunderbolt 2.0 ready anti-static protection anti moisture protection and the list goes on and on so let's just go ahead and get it installed and go from there so there we go guys the asrock fatality x99 ex killer motherboard looks fantastic has lots of features that I actually like on there and the other so some parts laying around I I literally just fired this one up mess and all just still chilling here showing you guys I'm pretty messy builder which I've shown in the past before but the killer motherboard has a lot of features that I really like I like how the USB 3.0 are close together I like that it actually has a USB plug built onto the motherboard that she can do a standard USB plug in there's actually a lot of things I could actually use that for now I've got a 264 Engineer running here in the background and I didn't do anything for the overclocking on this except for going into the BIOS and using one of their pre-selected speeds which they've kind of determined already where the settings should be based on their own preliminary testing on all of their engineering samples of the different chips now this is 4.4 gigahertz which is the same that I was running my test bench on with the Asus board but what I noticed is it's doing it at 1.30 8 volts and the only way I was able to get 4.4 gigahertz stable on the Asus was to run about 1.3 4 volts so it's running less voltage and just disabled and in fact right now we're running currently cores in the upper 40s to mid 50s and we are looking at a max package temperature of 68 Celsius right now sitting at 62 Celsius and that is with a triple radiator on their triple 30 mil radiator which is very very standard size it's not oversized 45 mil or anything like that now I do have a lot of fantastic things to say about the motherboard I don't really have anything negative to say which is very rare I think all the features are in line I think it gives you tons of the tons of features with a very good price point the fact that the Intel NIC on there is Intel Windows was able to identify that right away so I didn't have to use a USB port or USB thumb drive or anything because I have no optical on here to install any of the drive I was able to install my Ethernet into the Nick on the Intel side download all my drivers be up and running and as you can see a motherboard swap and my windows is still fully up and running that's because we're using the same controllers for the SSD so it was actually very simple to get that migrated over but I just want to show here using the and it's not even automated it's not like the Asus you know five-way optimization where it goes through and does a bunch of tests and then fails and figures out what's stable it I just chose it in a drop-down and it's perfectly stable so we got a pretty good overclock on here 1.1 gigahertz overclocked by simply selecting a drop-down menu in a button and it's fully stable temperatures are great it's not throwing a ton of voltage added to try and do that so I'm very happy with that overall the motherboard would have been nice to see plx on there for those extra synthetic lanes rather than you know the 5820k don't has twenty eight lanes on there which makes some graphics card utilization a little bit difficult 3-way is not even an option on this chip that's too bad but anyway guys the asrock x99 ex killer motherboard here the fatality version I think is a fantastic motherboard in fact it's gonna be staying on this test bench they didn't tell me I had to send it back the other way they're not getting it back guys been Jays two cents I hope this videos helped in some way when it comes to choosing your x99 platform motherboard they do also have this same motherboard in the Z series as e 97 series so if you guys are on main stream platform akyuu make sure you check that out so all the same functionality on there as well it's got plenty of fan headers on there the built-in audio on there's fantastic in fact i'm running all of my fans on this system directly off the motherboard itself and the fan control software is also very very simple to use I think as ROC has definitely got themself a winner on this one here I am a genuine fan of asrock products ever since using the Z 77 OC formula which they also have an OC formula version of this motherboard as well which pulls out all the overclocking stops so there you go guys Jays two cents taking a look at the as rock X 99 X killer fatality edition motherboard I think I said that wrong fatality X 99 X killer another borge you guys check it out if you're looking at building an x 99 system tune for gamers and overclocking as always guys follow on twitter if you have any questions and that we'll see you in the next one you