Had the X299-A. It would honestly have been fine for me if it wasn't for the fake VRM heatsink. A 12-core could barely be above stock before running into issues. Glad to see they've improved significantly over there :)
I just bought this thing used on eBay. Can’t believe how feature packed it is for a 2018 model. I’m using it for my daughter, but truth be told - kind of jealous as her mobo is superior to mine now 😂😂😂 Great review my friend!
Finished my build with this motherboard and it's awesome! ;) overclocking goes really well too on this one, 7900x 4,6 ghz on all 10 cores without breaking a sweat
Thank you my friend, was looking for a good detailed review on this mobo -- you nailed it, and with charm! Was looking for a review on this exact board. For a new 9940X !
You cannot run all three PCIe x16 slots at x16 simultaneously. They will run at 16x/16x/8x on 44-Lane CPUs. Also, only the middle M.2 is wired to the CPU directly. The bottom and the vertical M.2 slots run through the chipset.
Indeed . Thanks for the correction! For the M.2 that s also correct :) but ddint think that would have been of great added value if it was permanently thermo throttling. But ... thats me ") Thanks again fornur correction :)
Really appreciate the review... I had ordered my board and received it today and just today decided to find a review. I am excited to get it up and running.
This was the only motherboard I could find with thunderbolt 3. Many audio interfaces are using thunderbolt now and some of the drivers have issues with ports connected through pcie
3d modeling and animation takes a bit of time. But its at least 30% of the time i put in for every videos. Eventhough it takes more time than just filming the board, the high quality of the shots is such pleasure to watch .
Thanks Laurent, absolute top review of an incredible motherboard - magnifique! You are the crème de la crème of reviewers when it comes to motherboards, GPU and cases and this latest one proves it again. I love your use of special effects as they are very helpful to clarify the exact place and part of the board as you speak - VERY helpful. I'm new to building so this is very much appreciated. Haha - 5 gigabit ethernet port (!) . . . still having that sink in and wondering when one could possible use that! I thought 1 gigabit was over the top with our Australian internet speeds maxing out at about 150Mbs for 95% of users here. Gaming I suppose - am I right? I'm not fully into gaming but I've heard of LAN parties so maybe that's where you'd use the 5Gig port somehow, I dunno. We can only hope that the few little negatives on this board are avoided when ASUS updates all of their X299 boards. I tell you what Laurent, the TUF Mark 1 board might look a little, shall we say, 'under-specified' now after this review! I Can't imagine why ASUS didn't give this new Prime board the full 5 year warranty of the TUF board . . . seems to be made of stuff at least the equal to the TUF Mark 1. Do you have any idea? That 5 year warranty is probably the only reason I would consider the TUF over the Prime 2 now. Thanks again and please keep up the spectacular work mate!
What to say .. such nice words. I am editing the x299 Mark 1 as we speak and im not stayin a word... but its anclose one. Keep in mind that one is half the price of the other !. Love Australia!
Hey Vincent, lately whither Asus I have been seeing some sketchy stuff concerning the vrm especially on the hero xi mobo, any thoughts? That being said this mobo looks great!
Indeed... they went from serial phases to parallel (or Twin as they call it). It does bring a much much better latency, but heating is an issue. Ill take a look at the X299 Apex.
Hello your videos are quite awesome. I want to buy a motherboard but i am confused between ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO Wifi and gegabyte aorous z390 master. Can you please make a detailed comparison video between these two motherboards.
Not to be a pain, I think you may have some misleading information on the 3 way triple SLI all at X16. This isn't true. According to Asus site you can only run two PCI-E 3.0 at full X16 electrical speeds. The 3rd one runs at X8 electrically. So they don't all run at full X16. Or has Asus made a mistake ?
Hi Laurent. :) That's ok. Their is only one board that can run true 2-Way, 3-Way or 4-Way SLI and run 4 PCI-E lanes at full 16X speeds. But its pointless anyway and your best just running 16x and 8x and together. That motherboard is the Asus WS Sage X299 motherboard for workstation or server applications. But when running 16X or 8X mode in SLI their is only a 1% difference because most maxwell and pascal archtectures can't send enough bandwith to saturate and exceed the PCI-E 3.0 bandwith limitations. Or there are no applications to take advantage of sending even over 8X bandwith. BUT the RTX Titan which uses a newer architecture just might be able to exceed 16X bandwith limitations. So i guess the world doesn't need PCI-E 4.0 yet.
1 year and a month later and this Mother Board is still $500, Glad I got mine Open Box for $250+ Tax. Now Just Wondering whats the best chip for Gaming and 4k HDR Video Rendering Combined? You know the best of both worlds? Anyone have a good Suggestion? Thanks for the great review. Subbed. :o)
Hi,.can i attach a thunderbolt sound card or hard drive to the USB-C plugs in this motherboard or those plugs are just for the video? Because you said the thunderbolts are for video in this motherboard. Will i need thunderbolt pcie cards for sound card?
@@Laurentschoice Thanks, but actually i wanted to know if the SSD can achieve the same high Read/Write Values, like on a PCIe 4.0 Motherboard? ( ASUS ROG Strix X299-E) Cause this MB supports only PCIe 3.0..(?
Hi Great Video! I own this AMAZING Board, I wanted to point something at 10:45 ... really important. The (Addressable RGB)/ (ARGB) I Believe on the Map you have It pointing at The RGB Port? Is this a Typo? Just want to make sure Im not Plugging In the wrong Location, I was thinking to myself If I Plug in an ARGB Fan into the RGB Port. I will probably burn something up and My Lady won't be having that 😂
Can´t believe that all new motherboards don´t have hdmi out. They cram all those IO back there and frankly 90% is not used, I would trade them all for 2 HDMI or displayport out, is that so difficult? Also, why choose optical SPDIF out instead of coaxial? Coaxial has superior bandwidth and sounds better, they should at least offer the SPDIF out header on the mobo, at least gigabyte does that.
At 8:16 I did a GPU mapping. Check it out. The way Thunderbolt 3 works is : GPU Display out to IO Display in to Type C and then TYPE C to up to 6 displays (you need an adapter for this). So yes, you feed the board DPs with GPU DPs. You do not connect the board DPs to display, but to the GPU DP out. I listened to myself and totally see where the confusion is. Sorry about that. Laurent
I'm researching high-end audio workstation builds featuring onboard Thunderbolt 3 connectivity which rules out all but a few quality motherboards. I have chosen - the Asus Prime X299 Deluxe II motherboard - which best addresses the majority of my current and future audio workstation requirements. Before selecting my individual DDR4 RAM card capacity - I am wondering if any performance values could be effected by populating 'only' the (1st & 2nd) Priority memory slots on this MB with say 4x32GB sticks totalling 128GB RAM - versus - populating all (8) slots, with similar spec’d 8x16GB sticks, again totalling 128GB of DDR4 RAM? I do not wish to OC my build at this time, wanting to keep things as cool, quiet and stable as possible. Screaming speeds are not a priority for me, as default DDR4 2666 RAM values will easily handle my anticipated workloads. I am curious which of the above noted DDR4 2666 RAM layouts would work more efficiently than the other, in partnership with Intel's i9-9960X CPU and why? I am assuming your preferred choice, would apply equally to all current RAM speeds between say 2666 and 4266 on this board. If not, why not? Your comments would be very helpful and appreciated. tyvm :)
@@Laurentschoice Sweet! I'll check it out. I'm considering a build with this mobo. But I saw another review that gave me a bit of concern with regard to vrm thermals. Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/owiudDsJ8bY/видео.html Curious what your thoughts might be.
What Asus is doing that is annoying me to all hell is that this motherboard seems much better than the rampage VI Omega. But the Omega is much more expensive they need to decide which is their top of the line and give it all the features the Omega is missing the thunderbolt header professionals who were editing with 10 core CPUs are more than likely using thunderbolt peripherals because that's the standard if you want to get footage off of your memory card and onto your computer as fast as possible !!
Is thunderbolt easy to set up with this MOBO? My Asus X99 Deluxe II thunderbolt was a nightmare to set up. Gigabyte did it right. Just thunderbolt on and off. I hope asus learned from the x99 series
@@Laurentschoice Hi Laurent! I meant setting up in the bios. On my old gigabyte it was thunderbolt on or off. My X99 Deluxe II was a nightmare. Lots of settings within thunderbolt section of the bios. I found 1 person that figured it out because asus didnt help and there are no instructions on how to set it up.
Yes indeed. On the X99 series u did need to configure and designate a PCIe slot to the Thunderbolt card for it to receive allocated bandwidth . In the Prime X299 A deluxe II, everything is hard soldered ... so ready out of the box.
Hi, I love your videos, but could you help, I am updating my PC and my budget is decent but not too much so right now I already buy core i7 9800x but I am confusing between Asus prime x299 deluxe ii or MSI MEG x299 Creation so which one you suggest, one more thing after watching your this video so I am interesting in deluxe ii
There is one more thing, which is confusing for me, about thenderbolt 3 to USB 3.0 cable or connector, Because on Amazon there is few cables w come with name with type c and bracket thunderbolt I am little bit confused
Vous devriez faire vos présentations en français, ce serait plus clair et la compétition est moin vive (quand tout le monde se met à l'anglais comme des lemmings, ça laisse beaucoup de place... ;-). Peut-être auriez-vous alors plus de vues. Maintenant, pour le contenu c'est bien mais ce serait certainement mieux si vous pouviez vous exprimer dans le confort de votre langue. Enfin, ce n'est que mon humble avis... Merci pour la "review" !
J apprécie énormément. Le soucis... cest que les redistributeurs avec qui je travaille sont anglophone... et si je ne faos de review en anglais.. je ne recois plus rien :(
Leur attitude est bien bizarre: préférer moins de vues du moment qu'on le fait en anglais, ce n'est pas rationnel. De la xénophobie ou de l'ethnocentrisme doctrinaire ? De toute façon, avec les nouvelles politiques de RUclips, s'ils vous paient pour cela ça compense le manque de vues - et au bout du compte ça leur laisse le contrôle sur le contenu RUclips. Enfin... Bon courage !
Had the X299-A. It would honestly have been fine for me if it wasn't for the fake VRM heatsink. A 12-core could barely be above stock before running into issues. Glad to see they've improved significantly over there :)
I just bought this thing used on eBay. Can’t believe how feature packed it is for a 2018 model. I’m using it for my daughter, but truth be told - kind of jealous as her mobo is superior to mine now 😂😂😂
Great review my friend!
They don't do boards like this anymore ::((
Finished my build with this motherboard and it's awesome! ;) overclocking goes really well too on this one, 7900x 4,6 ghz on all 10 cores without breaking a sweat
A proper review! And I love the energy. I need this board for my hackintosh. Thank you!
One hell of a motherboard! Keep on doing what you are doing laurents! Hope to see the actual mobo soon
Thank you my friend, was looking for a good detailed review on this mobo -- you nailed it, and with charm! Was looking for a review on this exact board. For a new 9940X !
Yo.. awesome .. thanks that very nice comment ::):):)
Laurent - I like you. Keep up the great work. I'm trying to save money for a Threadripper build... inspired by you.
nice. Yes i believe that, even that i love asus with my soul, some issues in 2018 miss leading part. well that is what it is. Thanks! happy new year
Finally someone gave this mobo a proper review
You cannot run all three PCIe x16 slots at x16 simultaneously. They will run at 16x/16x/8x on 44-Lane CPUs.
Also, only the middle M.2 is wired to the CPU directly. The bottom and the vertical M.2 slots run through the chipset.
Indeed . Thanks for the correction!
For the M.2 that s also correct :) but ddint think that would have been of great added value if it was permanently thermo throttling. But ... thats me ")
Thanks again fornur correction :)
Really appreciate the review... I had ordered my board and received it today and just today decided to find a review. I am excited to get it up and running.
This was the only motherboard I could find with thunderbolt 3. Many audio interfaces are using thunderbolt now and some of the drivers have issues with ports connected through pcie
nice graphics effects. Eg I do not know how you did RGB effect on photo and debug led effect. Awesome.
3d modeling and animation takes a bit of time. But its at least 30% of the time i put in for every videos.
Eventhough it takes more time than just filming the board, the high quality of the shots is such pleasure to watch .
@@Laurentschoice thanks man :)
I just bought this motherboard :3 this video is getting me hyped for when it arrives
Edit: hey thanks for the like my guy :)
Thanks Laurent, absolute top review of an incredible motherboard - magnifique! You are the crème de la crème of reviewers when it comes to motherboards, GPU and cases and this latest one proves it again. I love your use of special effects as they are very helpful to clarify the exact place and part of the board as you speak - VERY helpful. I'm new to building so this is very much appreciated. Haha - 5 gigabit ethernet port (!) . . . still having that sink in and wondering when one could possible use that! I thought 1 gigabit was over the top with our Australian internet speeds maxing out at about 150Mbs for 95% of users here. Gaming I suppose - am I right? I'm not fully into gaming but I've heard of LAN parties so maybe that's where you'd use the 5Gig port somehow, I dunno. We can only hope that the few little negatives on this board are avoided when ASUS updates all of their X299 boards. I tell you what Laurent, the TUF Mark 1 board might look a little, shall we say, 'under-specified' now after this review! I Can't imagine why ASUS didn't give this new Prime board the full 5 year warranty of the TUF board . . . seems to be made of stuff at least the equal to the TUF Mark 1. Do you have any idea? That 5 year warranty is probably the only reason I would consider the TUF over the Prime 2 now. Thanks again and please keep up the spectacular work mate!
What to say .. such nice words.
I am editing the x299 Mark 1 as we speak and im not stayin a word... but its anclose one. Keep in mind that one is half the price of the other !.
Love Australia!
5 gigabit port will be useful for working with large files directly on LAN server: cg, vfx, editing etc...
x299 apex was by far their best mobo for that socket..
Nope, I got twoof them, apex and deluxe II. Deluxe II is far better than apex.
The board now is 299.99 on Amazon. Buying it now.
Hey Vincent, lately whither Asus I have been seeing some sketchy stuff concerning the vrm especially on the hero xi mobo, any thoughts? That being said this mobo looks great!
Indeed... they went from serial phases to parallel (or Twin as they call it).
It does bring a much much better latency, but heating is an issue.
Ill take a look at the X299 Apex.
just bought this motherboard we will see when its together paired with I-9 9920x
Wait ... an i9920x...what are u going to do it with it ?
@@Laurentschoice do some editing and some gaming same as you haha
Man... that's a solid build right there :)
Hello your videos are quite awesome. I want to buy a motherboard but i am confused between ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO Wifi and gegabyte aorous z390 master. Can you please make a detailed comparison video between these two motherboards.
What is the best motherboard to date
? I want to build a gaming computer
I also do not understand why manufacturers can not make one USB and have to divide it into a thousand subspecies, 3.0,3.01,3002,3.02,3.2c, 3,2d :-)))
Lol... amen .. AMEN to that !!!
I would like to see bios setup video I have trouble install Windows 10 crash on my new build on prime x299 deluxe ii
Yeah same here. Trying to get it past POST is incredibly frustrating.
Not to be a pain, I think you may have some misleading information on the 3 way triple SLI all at X16. This isn't true. According to Asus site you can only run two PCI-E 3.0 at full X16 electrical speeds. The 3rd one runs at X8 electrically. So they don't all run at full X16. Or has Asus made a mistake ?
Indeed :)
Was a misread from me :)
Hi Laurent. :) That's ok. Their is only one board that can run true 2-Way, 3-Way or 4-Way SLI and run 4 PCI-E lanes at full 16X speeds. But its pointless anyway and your best just running 16x and 8x and together. That motherboard is the Asus WS Sage X299 motherboard for workstation or server applications. But when running 16X or 8X mode in SLI their is only a 1% difference because most maxwell and pascal archtectures can't send enough bandwith to saturate and exceed the PCI-E 3.0 bandwith limitations. Or there are no applications to take advantage of sending even over 8X bandwith. BUT the RTX Titan which uses a newer architecture just might be able to exceed 16X bandwith limitations. So i guess the world doesn't need PCI-E 4.0 yet.
:) awesome comment.
Dont mind if i share it .
@@Laurentschoice sure Laurent. Share and mention if you like.
What kind of case should I pair this mobo with?
1 year and a month later and this Mother Board is still $500, Glad I got mine Open Box for $250+ Tax. Now Just Wondering whats the best chip for Gaming and 4k HDR Video Rendering Combined? You know the best of both worlds? Anyone have a good Suggestion?
Thanks for the great review. Subbed. :o)
Hi,.can i attach a thunderbolt sound card or hard drive to the USB-C plugs in this motherboard or those plugs are just for the video? Because you said the thunderbolts are for video in this motherboard. Will i need thunderbolt pcie cards for sound card?
you ll need a type C adapter to USB (Type A), and you can connect all the mentioned components to it :)
Greta Review" Does it support a PCIe® 4.0 NVMe™ SSD,
like the Samsung 980 PRO ?
Yes it does
@@Laurentschoice Thanks, but actually i wanted to know if the SSD can achieve the same high Read/Write Values, like on a PCIe 4.0 Motherboard? ( ASUS ROG Strix X299-E) Cause this MB supports only PCIe 3.0..(?
How about lack of VRM cooler? Its just one thing what this motherboard really missing
Yeah.... great point.. talked about that on the review... the only downside ... but didnt get accross the 80c ... so not so bad on severely OC test
Hi Great Video! I own this AMAZING Board, I wanted to point something at 10:45 ... really important. The (Addressable RGB)/ (ARGB) I Believe on the Map you have It pointing at The RGB Port? Is this a Typo? Just want to make sure Im not Plugging In the wrong Location, I was thinking to myself If I Plug in an ARGB Fan into the RGB Port. I will probably burn something up and My Lady won't be having that 😂
Can´t believe that all new motherboards don´t have hdmi out. They cram all those IO back there and frankly 90% is not used, I would trade them all for 2 HDMI or displayport out, is that so difficult? Also, why choose optical SPDIF out instead of coaxial? Coaxial has superior bandwidth and sounds better, they should at least offer the SPDIF out header on the mobo, at least gigabyte does that.
Maybe I misunderstood you, but i think the DPs on the board are Inputs. So you cant use it to run a display
At 8:16 I did a GPU mapping. Check it out.
The way Thunderbolt 3 works is :
GPU Display out to IO Display in to Type C and then TYPE C to up to 6 displays (you need an adapter for this).
So yes, you feed the board DPs with GPU DPs. You do not connect the board DPs to display, but to the GPU DP out.
I listened to myself and totally see where the confusion is. Sorry about that.
Laurent
I'm researching high-end audio workstation builds featuring onboard Thunderbolt 3 connectivity which rules out all but a few quality motherboards. I have chosen - the Asus Prime X299 Deluxe II motherboard - which best addresses the majority of my current and future audio workstation requirements. Before selecting my individual DDR4 RAM card capacity - I am wondering if any performance values could be effected by populating 'only' the (1st & 2nd) Priority memory slots on this MB with say 4x32GB sticks totalling 128GB RAM - versus - populating all (8) slots, with similar spec’d 8x16GB sticks, again totalling 128GB of DDR4 RAM? I do not wish to OC my build at this time, wanting to keep things as cool, quiet and stable as possible. Screaming speeds are not a priority for me, as default DDR4 2666 RAM values will easily handle my anticipated workloads. I am curious which of the above noted DDR4 2666 RAM layouts would work more efficiently than the other, in partnership with Intel's i9-9960X CPU and why? I am assuming your preferred choice, would apply equally to all current RAM speeds between say 2666 and 4266 on this board. If not, why not? Your comments would be very helpful and appreciated. tyvm :)
Z 370 and Z 390 motherboards life is 5 Years
yes, love this mb, so nice so powerful
would this motherboard work with dim 288 ram? i messed up and bouth these instead of 184
Hi Laurent! Were you able to find a case that takes advantage of the front panel connectors?
Yes... I got and reviewed the Coolermaster SL600M
@@Laurentschoice Sweet! I'll check it out. I'm considering a build with this mobo. But I saw another review that gave me a bit of concern with regard to vrm thermals. Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/owiudDsJ8bY/видео.html Curious what your thoughts might be.
What Asus is doing that is annoying me to all hell is that this motherboard seems much better than the rampage VI Omega. But the Omega is much more expensive they need to decide which is their top of the line and give it all the features the Omega is missing the thunderbolt header professionals who were editing with 10 core CPUs are more than likely using thunderbolt peripherals because that's the standard if you want to get footage off of your memory card and onto your computer as fast as possible !!
Agreed
Is thunderbolt easy to set up with this MOBO? My Asus X99 Deluxe II thunderbolt was a nightmare to set up. Gigabyte did it right. Just thunderbolt on and off. I hope asus learned from the x99 series
Well .. on this board u have 2 of them.. pre-installed... so no setup required ;)
@@Laurentschoice Hi Laurent! I meant setting up in the bios. On my old gigabyte it was thunderbolt on or off. My X99 Deluxe II was a nightmare. Lots of settings within thunderbolt section of the bios. I found 1 person that figured it out because asus didnt help and there are no instructions on how to set it up.
Yes indeed. On the X99 series u did need to configure and designate a PCIe slot to the Thunderbolt card for it to receive allocated bandwidth .
In the Prime X299 A deluxe II, everything is hard soldered ... so ready out of the box.
can i put a ryzen 7??
No, youbl will need an X370 or X470 powered motherboard :)
Laurent's Choice thanks i really like ur channel
Great review! Wondering how many awsome you've said? lol
Can you install redhat or Linux OS in that asus? And the thunderbolt 3 Will work on Linux?
Yes for first.
Not sure for 2nd.
Finally a mobo that looks well thought... I mean, they removed PS2.
Ahahahah
By any chance have you used the thunderbolt ports?
I have :)
They work great!
Laurent's Choice woohoo! Thank you! I'm getting it!
Hi,
I love your videos, but could you help, I am updating my PC and my budget is decent but not too much so right now I already buy core i7 9800x but I am confusing between Asus prime x299 deluxe ii or MSI MEG x299 Creation so which one you suggest, one more thing after watching your this video so I am interesting in deluxe ii
Yes ..the Deluxe II packs much more for ur money than the MSi creation can ever hope to.
@@Laurentschoice
Thanks, but do you think MSI creation is much better than Deluxe ii?
There is one more thing, which is confusing for me, about thenderbolt 3 to USB 3.0 cable or connector,
Because on Amazon there is few cables w come with name with type c and bracket thunderbolt I am little bit confused
I don't know who's more hansam the motherboard or the channels host :D
Vous devriez faire vos présentations en français, ce serait plus clair et la compétition est moin vive (quand tout le monde se met à l'anglais comme des lemmings, ça laisse beaucoup de place... ;-). Peut-être auriez-vous alors plus de vues. Maintenant, pour le contenu c'est bien mais ce serait certainement mieux si vous pouviez vous exprimer dans le confort de votre langue. Enfin, ce n'est que mon humble avis... Merci pour la "review" !
J apprécie énormément.
Le soucis... cest que les redistributeurs avec qui je travaille sont anglophone... et si je ne faos de review en anglais.. je ne recois plus rien :(
Leur attitude est bien bizarre: préférer moins de vues du moment qu'on le fait en anglais, ce n'est pas rationnel. De la xénophobie ou de l'ethnocentrisme doctrinaire ? De toute façon, avec les nouvelles politiques de RUclips, s'ils vous paient pour cela ça compense le manque de vues - et au bout du compte ça leur laisse le contrôle sur le contenu RUclips. Enfin... Bon courage !
wish it was black tho
very difficult to listen to.....
Ah... any sound issues ?