ASUS X99-DELUXE Motherboard Review

The name “DELUXE” is often used on products that don’t quite deserve it, but when it comes to ASUS’ motherboards, the company makes sure that isn’t the case. Given that, it’s little suprise that the X99-DELUXE does in fact deserve its name, as it doesn’t just offer a slew of features and capabilities, it packs in extras we wouldn’t ever expect.

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ASUS’ goals for its DELUXE series of motherboards have never been hard to surmise. Outside of the usual “stable” and “overclockable”, “DELUXE” has long meant that a board is seriously feature-packed, and is designed to prevent people from ever running out of connectivity options.

That’s all true with ASUS’ X99-DELUXE, but given the sheer amount of features it bundles in, I almost feel like X99-ULTIMATE would have been a more appropriate name. With this board, everything you’d expect from a DELUXE board is present, but there are some surprises – including items you might not have realized you wanted.

ASUS’ X99-DELUXE launched alongside Intel’s Haswell-E processors in the fall, so I admit: I’m behind on getting this thing published. That’s something I regret, because the X99-DELUXE is a product I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while. Better late than never?

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