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right guys we're here at the EVGA Booth with an pretty interesting motherboard
this is their x99 micro which we may or may not have at the office already I'm
not sure what type of things there are covering that so I'm going to say may or
may not this board is fairly interesting they have a nice little cover over their
IO which is compris of 6 USB 2.0 ports a
clear seos button in between the USB 2.0 ports and four USB 3.0 Ethernet and
audio jacks I'm actually happy that there's a whole bunch of USB 2.0 and I
know a few people are going to look at me kind of weird for that but it's
really nice because compatibility for USB 3.0 honestly isn't that great so
when I'm setting up a computer I like having at least three cuz then I have
USB uh like a general USB stick keyboard and mouse at the very least so it's
actually nice to see quite a few of those looking at the board itself we
have a CPU power at the top two fans a clear
seam Lo button power reset some sort of I'm assuming voltage checkout point a
post LED uh Power for the motherboard as a whole six SATA ports USB 2.0 uh front
panel connectors USB 3.0 another chassis fan another chassis fan spit if out and
your audio in right there for Lanes
we've got a PCIe uh x16 slot and I
believe an X8 and another x16 it's 1668
sorry for that we have an M2 socket right kind of in between your 16 and
your 16 right in there in the middle and then you have four RAM slots in total
for this board it's really interesting because it's a micro board this socket
is freaking huge if you haven't noticed that yet so it's pretty cool that they
were actually able to fit it on a micro board I know I was just talking to them they said they wanted to be able to fit
it on an ITX board so they can fit it in one of their cases but as of right now
maybe not so much because of how freaking massive that socket actually is
all right guys now we're moving on to the x99 for the win jumping into IO for
this one again a nice little metal cover which will make it look really sweet
it's not super different from the past one uh another six USB 2.0 ports another
clear seamos button dual Ethernet uh four USB 3.0 and then your standard
audio jack so that's actually pretty much the same jumping up at the top we
have another fan header on the left hand side we have your CPU power another fan
header another fan header power reset buttons I believe a voltage checkpoint
like I said before and then you have a right right angled uh normal 24 pin
power for your motherboard which is really cool that that's right angled not
all cases but a lot of cases we able to take really really good advantage of
that so I'm happy to see that a right angled fan Port again super cool a whole
ton of SATA ports 2 4 6 8 10 SATA ports
which is impressive another fan slot under that your front IO ports uh your
front IO headers sorry USB 3.0 USB 2.0
another right angle fan header uh an
onboard speaker which actually the smaller one had as well which is pretty cool another right angle fan header so
you can plug not only a crap ton of fans into this thing but a lot of them are going to be right angle and then you
have power for your uh expansion card Lanes which is cool to see if you're
going to be running a massive amount of graphics cards but I don't expect a ton
of you to do that but it's still pretty cool so it's not required to plug that in just so you guys know and then you
also have your sped if out and uh audio
jacks right there this one instead of having four RAM slots actually has eight
RAM slots and then yet again it just has that massive massive socket all right
guys now this is the x99 classified I'm mainly just going to be covering
differences the io's the same this plate Shield here is the same same amount of
RAM slots but one thing that they told me about is that there is more gold
content in the actual socket than in their other two boards which is pretty
interesting I'm not going to be able to test anything like that or anything on the boards because this is just kind of
a visual overview as we don't actually have this in the office maybe people get
this in the office later and be able to talk about the finer details later on
other than that it's pretty similar except that there are two m two sockets
we have an extended M2 socket down here and then we have this is a keym socket
and then we have a key e socket here for another M2 card just not quite as long
there's dual CPU power instead of single dpu CPU power like on the previous one
you still the right angle uh 24 pin same amount of SATA slots all that kind of
stuff one thing that I didn't talk about on the previous board was its Lanes so
you've got a 16x an 8X another 8X a 16x
a 4X and another 8X that is a crap ton of lanes but kind of actually what I was
expecting from this board so it's pretty cool to see all right guys thank you for
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