Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 12.07.16Page:
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| As expected the Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming is a well-built motherobard which comes with a plethora of features. There is for example the metal reinforced PCI Express slots as well as DIMM slots and apart from that there is customizeable RGB lighting. Apart from that there is a very decent power design next to other high quality components. These days the X99 Ultra Gaming sells for 272 Euro, which actually a reasonable price. Good to have, are the two USB 3.1 ports and apart from that there is also a U.2 and two M.2 x4 Gen3 slots. | -
Design - Layout |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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The Gigabyte X99 Ultra Gaming's layout has been well thought. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors. Unfortunately there is no debug LED and there are also no power and no reset button. What we really liked are all the choices you get to connect storage devices. There are two M.2 Slots for SSDs, there is a U.2 for even more super fast SSDs and there is a total of ten SATA ports for spinning disks or SATA SSDs. |
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Angled SATA
connectors - Space around the CPU socket - 4 x full-size PCIe with metal reinforcement |
- No Power on / Reset buttons - No Debug Led |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Having a closer look at overall 2D as well as 3D performance shows this board comes in 11th in 2D and 10th in 3D. Overall performance is ok but unfortunately there are a few glitches. On another note we had a look at power consumption and it turns out that this board scores 9th in our energy efficiency ranking, while we've tested 15 boards. | - SiSoft Sandra Arithmetic & Memory Bandwidth | ||
| Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
| As you might be expecting it from Gigabyte, you get a really good BIOS. It offers not only a lot of tuning and tweaking options but is also very easy to use. Especially with the entry screen with which Gigabyte is trying - and also succeeding - to add elements which make the BIOS much easier to use for unexperienced users as well. | - Clear arrangement - Sheer amount of options | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| The X99 Ultra Gaming currently sells for 272 Euro. The price tag is reasonable, while this is a solid board with a good feature mix. | - Enthusiast - Gaming - Modding |
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| Rating | |||
| The X99 Ultra Gaming from Gigabyte recieves good 4 out of 5 stars. | |||
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