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hey what's up guys gays two cents here bringing this some more aces goodness here you guys have complained that there's none of us enough aces products on the channel and I think we've solved that here with the x99 product lunch so now we're going to dive in here with the x99 deluxe we're going to talk a wool pretty much all about this motherboard and I'm not an AI or auto-tune or whatever you want to call it overclocker I like to get down and dirty and play with all the specs myself but at the end of this video we're also going to do some Auto tuning here with the overclocking and the 59 60 X we're going to see how well this thing can perform so obviously we have a motherboard here but there's some other things on the table so take it away JJ and what are we looking at so we're looking at the deluxe I mean this is pretty much you know our our highest end version of a mainstream motherboard that we're going to offer on the x99 platform I love the sideways battery by the way thank you you know you got to try to have a little bit of easy access right because of course if you have the GPU LG another water-cooled man yeah it's it's it's a pain right but I mean historically shouldn't be an issue because I mean the battery should at least be lasting you three to five years right on average um but we will actually have a total of three mainstream SKUs they'll be the deluxe they'll be a pro and then they'll be a - a so that follows pretty much the traditional trend of what we have on the mainstream line up for the Z series chipset with the deluxe you're pretty much getting the absolute best of the best in terms of all the things that you would want on a really high-end border here so of course all the x99 spec is a given so we're not going to cover the fact that it supports all three of the CPUs its ddr4 that's a given so what really are going to be the distinguishing points well first and foremost you're going to have a ton of just PCIe expansion as you can see we've got one two three four five a total of physical by 16 slots and then we have a by four there as well the board is really well suited for two-way and three-way GPU configurations and that actually ties in with a really cool feature that we've introduced right here which is a selectable switch that will illuminate LEDs that are on the board that will let you know what's the preferred layout recommendation for two-way or three wage values that in itself is really cool because the every motherboard layout is different and when it comes to trying to figure out what's the optimize you know two-way or 3-way configuration with this vending PCI slot you kind of sometimes we're left going okay which one kind of has the same amount of gap you know you'd let it guessing but sometimes that's not the correct configuration right and it depends because a lot of times of course lanes might be associated in one way and they might be associated in another way so you're looking for that optimal mix so we've already gone ahead and laid that out for you now outside of that the board of course has all the storage connections that you would expect so we've got serial ata we have SATA Express and we have m2 so when we take a look here and we just reference some of the searle ata we've got 2 4 6 8 10 12 so 12 total SATA 6 g parts on the board that's just a monster motor direction but of course if we take a look right there we've got a coarse SATA Express so each SATA Express port will of course work independently as two SATA 6 g parts so you're good to go and right here we've got the m2 so all the way around pretty much any storage device that's currently on the market you're going to be able to go ahead and interface with this board and be able to take advantage of which is already like kind of one of the blaring improvements of the x99 platform over x79 for sure in addition to that though the deluxe also does come included with this guy right here which is the hyper m 2 by 4 m dot 2 expansion card so if you don't want to use that maybe you just want to simply go ahead and put it on here you can go ahead and do that if you want to be really crazy you could buy 2 m2 SSDs and you could do a software raid and have some really crazy throughput because you're only limited by the PCI Express throughput right a lot of users don't realize that when they try to do these crazy big raid arrays on the local chipset the local chips that actually is what's called DMI bandwidth limited I really only can do about 1.6 gigabytes of total throughput so once you get to about like a third or fourth SSD it pretty much scales off it doesn't scale anymore because there's not enough throughput is collection size you express as much as I hate to use the term bottleneck it's truly a bottleneck yeah so that is just kind of a reality the way the storage array configuration works so this is another option outside of course rate controllers or PCI Express based solutions now the deluxe also still features a fully isolated audio design there's an integrated audio amplifier on here and we also have our niche econ audio capacitors one of the really cool things that we've also got 900 created here is we have a deep pop filter so that means that when you restart your system you don't get this pop that would come out of your system which is a nice icon that's really annoying when you have a subwoofer yeah exactly yeah you hear that big old pop of course you've got the front headphone here and then you have the line level outputs so that's entirely available to you and that detection technology that we have that's built in to allow you to go ahead and map to that can work for both the front headphone as well as the line out and we can auto switch in and out between those two um we also of course maintain DTS Connect for guys that want to sometimes take their audio and multi-channel audio out put it through a digital connection to like a sound bar like a receiver or something like that especially for high entertainment pcs for the likely we're living room area you get a lot of people that want to be able to have that and speaking here on the back IO you can see the board is pretty well stacked right so you've got you have two intel gigabit ethernet ports that are built onto the board we've got 2 4 6 8 10 10 USB 3 ports they also feature our USB 3 boost technology so that always get a quick charge smartphones and tablets even if the systems off you got USB 3 boost which is a way to optimize storage devices and give them either better performance you got classic 2 USB to ports on there for legacy interoperability and compatibility so for like some keyboards some I some devices sometimes they may not always 100% be I know some people have wondered well if USB 3.0 is backwards compatible why do you have to point oh but there are some really old legacy devices that may not actually work on a point you also on this board have the world's first motherboard that has full 82mm an AC 3 by 3 this is pretty monstrous that you can have real-world throughput that's going to be in the vicinity of you know three to four and a half times the speed of 10100 Ethernet alright pretty nuts along with that it fully supports what's called beamforming in turbo clamp and you get bluetooth so pretty awesome so when you take a look at that all the way around you're pretty much packed to the gills and in terms of also the networking we have what's called our turbo LAN packet priority software the big difference as opposed to something like the killer solution is that our packet priority software can work on any one of the network ports as well as the wireless and on any ad in device that you were ever to put on this board so it's not limited to a specific connection whereas in killer if you were using let's say Wi-Fi you can't prioritize your packet priority for whether it's gaming for downloading brow or whatever might be so you've got a lot more flexibility in this type of solution now in terms of the rest of the board the board is packed in terms of fan connectivity we've got six on board fan headers they're all four pin but they all fully support DC and PWM output control and that brings us to this little guy right here generally much about we we talked about off Cameron this is really awesome because you guys know my systems tend to run an awful lot of fans because I'm a die-hard water cooler yeah I mean the system behind me right here is 18 bits I'm sorry not 18 because I couldn't go push-pull but we're still north of 1314 fans so which leads the question of how do you control all those fans if we were like me and you don't want to go with a dedicated fan controller so explain this so the great thing is one is that having true PWM output control not just on the CPU but on every single fan header means that we could just go ahead and buy like a cheap PWM fan splitter cable you know for five bucks goes one goes into the fan header and then you could have three or four outputs and then on those three or four outputs you connect the fans and just power those by the power supply right but all those can still be controlled within the actual UEFI or within the operating system so that's a great degree of flexibility but this little fan extension module though we natively take the six fan headers and give you nine fan headers the cool thing is this is entirely transparent the moment you plug this in it looks like they're just another set of fan headers on the motherboard so you have nine fitters so does it like on some fan controllers may only see it as one fan but it's just kind of dummy splitting off to other fans the motherboard will see each fan connected to this independently correct so you have true nine actual individual fan headers that all have DC PWM and even fan calibration so we offer the ability that we can automatically calibrate all your fans that's still available to you on this on top of that one of the really awesome things as well as we have full temperature input mapping to all those fan headers that's something that most users don't even realize they have the ability because they might not realize the level of fan control that we're offering but what that means is that the chassis fan header can respond to any one of these three temperature inputs another optional temperature input that's on the motherboard as well as outside of the CPU the BRM the PCH or the motherboard temperature so you can have your fans literally respond to your system in the most specific conditional way and that's awesome because I don't I'm not a fan of fan controllers because I just don't want to add another level of a device to fail yeah and the motherboard seems like the most logical place to let the control happen anyway yeah okay so obviously we do have a thunderbolt device here which is pretty self-explanatory it's not really new to this platform correct it's just uh but you won't probably see it on most x99 platform so it actually is pretty special but we offer Thunderbolt II X support on all our X nominating boards including the deluxe so you can go ahead and just easily add that in there and you're good to go in the same way that we are also still offering and if sea express support on this board where you can just go ahead and connect it and you have a whole bunch of awesome functions you can do with NFC device right device to transfer devices for mobile devices or transferred files from mobile devices you can transfer them in here they can system login all kinds of really really cool stuff that's built into that so the last probably really special part to the deluxe is really our AI Suite 3 platform and we do have this right now running in the system behind JJ this is a 59 60 X yeah with the X 99 deluxe and so what we're going to go ahead and do there is we're actually going to go through the process of actually showing you guys quickly what a little bit of the interface looks like what are some of new functions and then what an auto-tuned environment looks like but the great thing we really that we have with AI Suite 3 is it's the full system utility we can do monitoring we do tweaking we can do tuning we do fan calibration and we can do Auto overclocking and the auto overclocking is really the unique part so with that let's go and I'm most interested in that because like I've said I've been very vocal against AI tuning not just aces but anybody's notice I'm all about learn the ventures which but a AI tuning and Paul made a very good point yeah Paul's hardware is here hi Paul hi he made a very good point to that ai tuning in the very least gives you a very good baseline to start at for your manual overclocking as well and actually I would say that it actually does what you're going to even do manually there's as a bold statement so let's see how it does yes I definitely think that okay but but your make a very good point is that regardless it's also one of the best ways that you can take literally the thousands of man-hours that we've had and cumulative lis in a very short period of time be able to have a baseline and understanding of what your system specific to your CPU your memory your cooling your power supply can produces as far as a result and then if you want to take it further you can definitely do that so I think let's take a closer look at it transition so as we see right here we've got a couple of options we've got all core overclocking but I prefer to go with our default which is per core just means that we're going to dynamically tune each individual core so that we get the best maximum performance versus fixing the processor to run at the same frequency across the board but then you can only overclock as far as the worst core correct yes as opposed to maximizing better course directly below that we have different tuning parameters so you can start from what's referred to as our optimal ratio just means it will start auto overclocking from kind of predetermined value that we've seen from the majority CPUs if you want to be the absolute safest though you can go from the pure default so tuning from the absolute pure stock so continuing on from where we have the actual default ratio you can also manually assign it so if you want to kind of shoot for a specific target then you can go ahead and find that target and we'll attempt to automatically tune to that designated target frequency now a new option that we've also introduced is going to be this one right here which is going to be OC tolerance which essentially just gives us the granularity of ensuring that we tune for the maximum potential on higher course a higher frequency capable course versus limiting the total overclock once again to all course so this allow us to maybe say institute a certain situation you could have four cores operate at four point six but then the rest of the course would only be able to operate four point three we can maintain that type of overclock scenario and then directly below that other new additions is we have voltage tuning so by default we have a built-in hard rule that will limit it to 1.3 volts but for this generation users can go ahead and see that if they have the cooling capability to handle greater than 1.3 volts but that's going to probably be for the majority users where you really want it to sit and that's what the default is but you go in there you can see we could go in and we could define that you could just simply you know set that to whatever you feel comfortable with right suppose you've run a you know custom water cooling loop or something like that you can go in there and just say I'm comfortable with 1.35 yeah exactly and you could make potentially get even a little bit higher result right directly below once again you've got the tuning frequency option that's available to you right here and then we also even have temperature based targeting which is really cool if you're somebody that just it's kinda like GPU boost for your CPU yeah if you just want to say hey I I want you to get me to whatever I can but always I still want to operate less than ADC then just go ahead and target that as new perfect for people that live in a hot climate yeah where they could say okay I'm comfortable with you know 80 85 give themself enough thermal Headroom from TJ Maxx and then just let the rest work itself out yeah and then we've also incorporated a full a multi-threaded memory stress testing the reason why that's important is because sometimes you can have a purely stable CPU frequency but the memory divider at that frequency may not be stable so actually tuning both of these at the same time sometimes brings down the hold of value but actually insurance much land much better stability correct and then speaking of stability this is a really big one we've now included AVX instructions that support so for users that are maybe content creation guys but also gamers our general productivity this is the same like running like handbrake or rip BOTS or Adobe Premiere and that's huge for a guy like me because there's plenty of times the synthetic benchmarks won't hit these types of instruction sets so that I think I have a really strong overclock or really stable overclock in a 264 prime95 and I get into Vegas or I get into Premiere and I start crashing yeah so this is this is huge so I'm just going to pretty much leave it at its default values I'm not going to pretty much modify anything right out of box type of configure yeah and we'll go ahead and do it the CPI Evan here is actually really not that great of a CPU but we're going to go ahead and run it and then we'll come back to see its results now all I'm doing is I'm unchecking the other portions of the five optimization just because we're just targeting showing you this guy as an example so and I think I'm think we mentioned it beginning the video in case we didn't this is the 59 60 X the 8 core 16 thread CPU which he says is not a great overclocker so let's go ahead and show the audience here what a not great overclocker actually does sure let's let's go ahead and we'll start off and we'll see what the results are collecting I'm excited so at that point it's going to go ahead and just start the tuning process and we'll come back to it in a little bit and we'll see what it shows ok ok so obviously this thing failed and it found it it's it's stable overclocked soiled it rolled it back slightly to because I believe it failed at what four point six attempt I believe so yes correct right so 36 percent overclocked 4.5 gigahertz on a three gigahertz base clock on the eighth core 16 threads right 16 threads of 4.5 gigahertz and this is a poor overclocker in your experience yes yes well when we consider also that if we would have incorporated the AVX which would have been a heavier load it would have been lower so overall I consider it a little bit of a poor overclock but I think the thing that overall highlights is that you know we've we've done a huge amount of work that manually even if you're a manual tuner to do this same thing would have literally cost you and if you were skilled it would cost you at least probably two and a half to four and a half hours and you would have to have information immediately available to you on how to tune the platform as opposed to somebody that Megan I know anything where it could take you literally tens of hours and rain even a couple of days what I love is that it shows individual clock speed on there we have some cores at four point five and some at four point four correct so as you can see what we've done is we've tuned cores from one to four up to 45 and then for the remainder of all core frequency when it's under all load it's going to be at forty four right a maximum temperature with 69 degrees Celsius and for that as you were mentioning you know the multiple temp probe locations yeah that's a kind of a kind of a package temp in a sense correct but you can also monitor if so if you go back and look in the reporting tool or if you were looking at it was actively looking we do also report the pure DTS temperature so you get both temperatures that are reported to you the other thing I think is the other thing I really like about this is it does show you the the wattage draw but it doesn't for most people overclocking they really don't care about that they have PSCs that can handle that they have coolers that can handle it but it shows you realistically how much power you're really drawing so from 140 watt based TPU up to 132 point three is what it's showing its yeah that that the TDP jumped quite a bit as a TPU thermal protection you know TDP well the main the main thing is like you said is a lot of people don't conjugate it just to keep in mind how much power draw make change but we think it's an important metric because sometimes people don't maybe always have the best power supplies and this helps you to understand how much maybe you're looking at total power consumption but all the way around the great thing is that it's a simple solution to be able to give you an overclock so that if you put together a really cool build you've got great quality Hardware it's an easy way to effectively actually leverage it okay so we're talking four point five gigahertz overclocked through auto-tuning it's 1.5 gigahertz overclocking auto-tuning so let's say 1.3 if we want to be conservative and know that of ABX enabled we might have crashed slightly sooner than that correct so even assuming it would've crashed Schumer let's say thirteen hundred megahertz of extra power through clicking a button letting it go took what five minutes if that makes total time I would say is generally going to be between about nine to twelve minutes for the audio tuning process how much time a manual yes you do know but do you guys know how much time a manual overclock of testing individual perimeters could take to get to this no but what did it do with memory in terms of XMP profile so what it is actually so that's a great question we don't leave memory by itself but memory is a little bit variable the memory controller that's built into the CPU even when you buy XMP memory that's validated that speed the memory controller may not always be able to run at that speed so what we do is we automatically enable an XMP profile up to 2400 speeds if it's greater than that that memory speed won't be leveraged or won't be utilized you would have to manually manually enable it that's a really good point I think a lot of people fail to realize that XMP profile is an overclock of the memory cradle yes it's the base clock of the memory here is 2133 yeah but the XMP is actually overclock profile for the memory so it's not guaranteed speeds well the memory is guaranteed to run out that speed not necessarily with your CPU right o'clock when the memory vendor qualifies the memory they're doing it with a CPU that actually operates at that speed right an advertised speed of 3.0 to 3 points so you always kind of look at it from the condition if your CPU can run at that speed this memory can run at that speed alright yeah what out-of-the-box best correct so from our perspective we tried to target an X and P value that we feel almost all CPUs even under an overclocked configuration we'll be able to leverage but you can also further test all of this by enabling those options that we discussed well guys I hope you've enjoyed our our review here of the x99 deluxe here from Asus dual intelligent processors 5/5 way optimization I actually recommend this software it's very rare that I recommend a piece of software to do what I love to do is an enthusiast manually I think it's going to be a great solution for a lot of people out there who just kind of want to set it and forget it and JJ once again thanks for coming by thank you for taking up a 18th time today because well it's JJ after all you guys you 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