Digital Power Design |
Since quite some time ASUS has been
equipping its boards with digital power
designs. Using the right software it is not only possible to adjust voltages while being in
Windows one can now also control impedances. Furthermore this board
features mosfets from International Rectifier as well as MicroFine
chokes and 10K black metallic capacitors. |
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Aura Lighting |
Aura Lighting is basically ASUS's name for extensive RGB lighting. For that purpose the company decided to backlight several different parts on this motherboard. There is for example the I/O shield, the shroud covering the I/O shield, the release clamps at the end of each PCI-Express x16 slot, the PCH heatsink as well as the entire right edge of the board. Apart from that there is also a header to connect RGB LED strips to the motherboard, which can then be controlled via ASUS's integrated software. |
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Crystal Sound 3
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With
Crystal Sound 3 you get ASUS' interpretation of high quality onboard
audio. Supporting up to eight channels, the Crystal Sound 3 solution received shielding from other onboard components. Apart from that there are high quality ELNA capacitors offering as clear as possible audio. |
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Safe Slot |
There are four full size PCIe slots on this particular board, which have been equipped with a steel frame. If you place a large and heavy gaming graphics card, while the board is mounted in a case, you will notice, that over time the slots starts to bend. Durgin rough transporting it can happen, that the PCIe slot breaks by the sheer force. In both cases the steel armor should help to increase the protection of the PCIe slots. |
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M.2/U.2 Support |
The ASUS X99 Deluxe II motherboard features one M.2 and two U.2 slots.
All three have been wired directly to the
X99 PCH via
four PCI Express 3.0 lanes, which means that up to 32 Gbps can be pushed over the bus through these slots and that translates into 4 Gigabyte per second. |
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