The ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe Motherboard Review: Onboard OLED and WiGig
by Joe Shields on February 16, 2018 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Asus
- X299
- Basin Falls
- Skylake-X
- Kaby Lake-X
Gaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our AOTS testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p, and less than 1 frame per second in 4K.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
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PeachNCream - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link
I think it's pretty safe to say that motherboards are too expensive and the things offered in exchange for the price like a tiny status screen and RGB LED strips on heatsinks don't really justify the cost.Destoya - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link
The HEDT platform motherboards have always suffered from being overpriced, but I do agree that the feature creep is not keeping up with the MSRP increases. Just a generation ago the X99 Deluxe had a MSRP of $400 with the X99-A at $275, both usually selling for around $20-30 less than that even close to release time. The addition of thunderbolt, U.2, and USB 3.1 on this board are notable but not really worth $100+, especially considering other features such as the overall number of Sata/USB ports has actually decreased over the past 3.5 years.Maleorderbride - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link
I generally agree (as an owner of an X99 Deluxe II), but at least one can sell all of the doodads, bells, and whistles on eBay leaving you with just a solid board.Selling the TB3 card and a bunch of completely unnecessary cables left me with ~$90. Not ideal, but clearly someone wants a "CPU Installer Tool" and the rest of the crap.
Araemo - Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - link
Do those add-ins even work?I bought the ThunerboltEX3 for a board it didn't come bundled with (but listed compatibility with it as a selling point), and it took me a few hours of trying different bios settings and driver version combinations to get it to even install properly within Windows, and still came up against a wall where it broke hibernate and hybrid sleep support in Windows.
For something I bought as a 'future proofing' add-on to my build, I was very unhappy with it, and after trying to correct it with ASUS support for over a month, I gave up and returned it to Amazon while I still could.
CheapSushi - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link
The PCBs are better in general with higher quality VRMs, MOSFETs, SMDs, Caps, etc. I see zero issue to complain about this when there's so many other options already. Don't buy it if you don't want it. Were you even in the market for the highest end enthusiast boards? Probably not anyway.sonicmerlin - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link
Wow it has WiGig. What would that even be used for? Can you test the performance?3DoubleD - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link
I found it strange that it was in the title, but they hardly mentioned it in the review.69369369 - Sunday, February 18, 2018 - link
Streaming 4K porn.pyrrh0 - Thursday, February 22, 2018 - link
WiGig (802.11ad) wireless access points already exist in the consumer space; Netgear's Nighthawk X10 is one. Dell and other PC manufacturers have wireless docks using the same technology. Multi-Gbps actual throughput, but limited to about 30 ft line-of-sight.notR1CH - Monday, February 19, 2018 - link
I really wish 10 GbE would become more standard on high end boards.