Connectors and I/O

In total ASUS equipped the X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) with eight angled SATA ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and they have been natively wired to the X99 PCH. Other than that there is one SATA Express port, natively wired to the PCH as well as an M.2 x2 slot, which has been located right below the PCH cooler. Although this is not a high-end X99 motherboard you find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons as well as a debug LED on this board. What's standard with ASUS motherboards since quite a few generations is the MemOK button which has proven useful quite a few times.



There are six fan headers on the X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped high-end system or workstation with fresh air. The fan headers are located close to the CPU as well as spread over the board. Other than that it's a good thing that all of them feature four pins, which allows for rpm regulation in BIOS as well as under Windows.



Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS equipped the X99-A/USB 3.1 (Transfer Express) USB 3.1 with a BIOS flash back button, one PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector, two USB 3.1, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0/1.1 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 3 - Features	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 4 - Layout	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 19 - Tomb Raider
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 21 - Thief
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 22 - Right Mark Audio Analyzer
Page 9 - 3DMark	Page 23 - BCLK Overclocking
Page 10 - 3DMark 11	Page 24 - Power Consumption
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage	Page 25 - Performance Rating
Page 12 - PC Mark 8	Page 26 - Price Comparison
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1	Page 27 - Conclusion
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