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excellent so guys x-men I don't know I always I have one false start target post so x99 has just launched haswell-e has just launched and if you're watching this video then you're probably interesting and finding out more information to that end I have a special guest here it's JJ from Asus how you doing JT I'm doing right now Thank You Frasca fantastic thank you so much for being here I also want to say a big thank you to Jay as of Jay's two cents because if you haven't noticed I'm not in my usual location we're actually Jay's house so thanks Jay as if I had a choice thanks Jay we forced him to do that a film you know prod animal so this video is going to be short and we're going to really just focus on the motherboard so if you guys are interested in a little bit more information about the CPUs I'm going to have a video up specifically on those if you're interested more information on ddr4 because these new motherboards use ddr4 memory and I have a video specifically on that as well so check those out also if you're interested in a much more in-depth video on Asus products with JJ we're also going to be doing one of those so stay tuned for that but JJ these motherboards all feature the x99 chipset mmm and let's just start from a high-level overview not specifically an Asus but generally speaking what is new about x99 let's say compared to the last enthusiast platform from intel x79 I would actually almost say every aspect everything that's new yeah almost every aspect of the platform has really been actually extended upon I mean of course you're going to have traditional things like you would expect like SATA and PCI Express and that it uses memory so it's not like we're fundamentally changing whole platform architectural characteristics ok um but as a whole in terms of the kind of key specifications that a lot of users might be interested in all of those things have pretty much been evolved and upgraded to either at least be parity with z97 or even actually be superior in some ways to that so if we take a look at it from the number of PCI Express Lanes that the platform has to offer which you know an enthusiast platform that's really important you know how many cards can you populate how many can you actively run at one time you know how many devices that are on the motherboard as a whole can essentially be run actively that's all enabled by PCI Express Lanes okay so with this platform you know you're talking at a minimum 28 to 40 PCI Express Lanes that the motherboard support depending on the CPU so that's a big upgrade a lot of add-on cards correct but that's also a change from x79 x79 all the CPUs had actually a the same exact PCI Express line count but this platform is a little bit different and how that affects you on the kind of the motherboard side or the chipset side is that the layouts might be a little bit different depending on that so that's something kind of considered between the CPU and the board that you're going to be getting outside of that storage is uh gone ahead and been I think really beefed up for this pot that is going to be my next question so we have excellent storage options not only do we have more SATA connectivity but we also have some next generation storage yeah and pretty much the way I look at it is every about every storage connection that you could want exists on the boards okay so you've got everything from an extensive complement of SATA 6g connectivity to m dot to specifications support PCI Express support built into the chipset with a with what's called the irst driver the option ROM that's part of the serial ata and the PCH so all the way around you've got pretty much all the connections you could ask for we have like what 10 10 SATA 6g or doesn't that's correct yes a 6 we also have the let's talk a little bit more about those new new memory I'm sorry new storage interconnect so SATA Express correct how does that work so SATA Express and m2 are both actually interconnects that leverage the PCI Express bus so pretty much what that just means is that we're able to bypass the SATA limitation and be able to offer much faster throughput lower latency and also have support for next generation storage devices which aren't right now on the market but they're going to be coming at laters timeframe they can use what's called mb m e this is a newer type of kind of communication protocol which is directly designed for flash storage so this is like the successor to HCI that's correct so that's that's something that's really awesome and we're going to see helping to progress the overall foundation of what you can have with high performance storage so that's really exciting and that's something specifically designed for non-volatile memory that's nvm right yeah and and not necessarily held back by some of the stuff that mechanical hard drives yeah the AAA protocol it's been around action for very very long time since the advent of the original SATA spec so overall time to progress and move towards something that can really take advantage of the flash performance that isn't currently offered on you know all these different types of storage devices whether they're SSDs or m2 based devices or PCI Express basis as these I think continue in that same storage note another improvement of course is USB 3 integrations built into the chipset so no more number relying on add-on shifts for that you gonna have it natively yeah you're gonna have it natively but you know add-on controllers actually always to a degree actually conserve some functionality in terms of not only performance but compatibility so at least for you know the boards you look at might not always not be something that's a just as pure as having the chips that built into it but by paper you know any board that you're going to buy is at least always going to have USB 3 the best thing that you can look at is that in all specifications you bumped up to the most current specs that includes PCI Express so you got PCI Express 3.0 across the boards though you got the most bandwidth for whether you're going to be running you know high-performance SSDs high-performance graphics graphics cards capture cards or any type of devices that need and can utilize the fastest PCI Express and I was of the enthusiast platform from Intel because it has such a long life span yeah but as a results x79 is so old now that we've seen so many new features introduced with with Haswell and even with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge that we're now just finally able to take advantage of so that's that's really exciting now I'm one more quick note before we jump on it to the Asus specific things and that as you mentioned the gosh irst empty so we're actually capable of doing stuff that we saw actually like with Sandy Bridge nipple issue with z68 we saw for instance Smart Response technology so now we have that capability as well yeah you have that entirely available to you so that all the way around like I said the storage on really xx 99 is really really enthusiast class about everything you could possibly want to do is available to you there and then of course you know one of the last touchstone points is that DDR for inclusion also helps to really complement storage and a lot of interesting ways because you know with the densities and the frequency and the bandwidth it's available you know Ram caches and Ram disks and things along those lines get really interesting and really excellent now what we've been talking about thus far kind of applies to pretty much any x99 board that you might be looking at but JJ's from Asus and Asus so you guys take some pride in the kind of special sauce that you drop into these boards so right now in front of us we have three boards that are going to either be available at launch for x99 or soon thereafter so we have the x99 deluxe over here which is kind of the mainstream wart in white and black in here we got the X 99 WS workstation board which Jay has been drooling over pretty much all day today not that I haven't does well and of course we have the r5 e the rampage 5 extreme over here for you rog lovers now what sort of sort of special things that you wouldn't necessarily find on other x99 boards has Asus dropped into say any one of these boards what are your favorites you know that's really hard to say as always you know we put in a huge amount of design work in terms of special features and functionality but one really exciting one is going to be a specialized hardware design implementation relative to what we're able to do when we really aggressively push the CPU in the memory so it's a really special design implementation that we've got on all these boards that I'll be interested to see if people can actually figure out on what we're able to do to allow us to actually have some really impressive cash ratio performance and DRAM clocking on I was very mysterious so we're gonna so he's saying that when we have the overclocking the inevitable overclocking competitions with x99 you think asus is going to have some some top to your performance I think our track record speaks for itself that's what excellent alright let's let's move on to something else what else do you have them so for us I think we take you know bigger pride and you know the the class of the fan controls for one is of course always a big point we've got that built in to the motherboards and enabling you know a level of control across every single fan header being able to have that DCM PWM output control being able to map to multiple temperature input sources is extremely impressive even Thunderbolt right none of these boards have negatively thunderbolt on x79 I know a lot of guys that we're doing concentration were like wow I would love to have Thunderbolt on there right but now every single one of these boards has support for our Thunderbolt 2 e x expansion card so you can go ahead and drop it in there and you can be rocking and rolling with that fastest i/o connection and we were going to wrap this up in this video up now but you can pretty much say that if familiar with the the special asus features from the mainstream platform that we've seen with z97 as well as even with with z87 and and and those words that have come out if you look at the segmentation so for instance 5 way optimization is available on the deluxe as well as the workstation a lot of the ROG features specific to like extreme high-level overclocking that sort of thing you're going to find those here stuff that you were looking for in the dizziest platform for the past four or five years apart from of course from the XML and refresh boards that you guys did a great job with you can now get in the newest platform with new CPUs ddr4 memory and all that good stuff so it is it is glorious day for enthusiasts not for high-end PC users for anyone who does content creation work with video or if you're if you're just looking to build the baddest thing out there you want speedy and you don't care about anything else and you want this to be as fast and is built as possible this is the platform for you all right so I'm again guys check out my youtube channel because we're going to do another video here where I'm just let JJ talk and it's probably to be really long but it's gonna be full of information so if you want more detail about all these boards check that out if you want to see more from Asus the PC DIY channel you can go to the website yeah PC diy.com or you can check us out a course on our own YouTube channel alright beautiful so check those out if you wanna see more of JJ thank you guys so much for watching this video don't forget take the like button don't forget to subscribe we'll see you all later goodbye I'm Jana that was awesome