Rog Strix X299-e Gaming Bios Update

Introduction

ASUS'southward STRIX branded product line has been a popular pick for gamers the last few generations due to its affordable toll tag attached to a product good looks, great functioning, and unbeatable ROG bloodlines. ASUS at present brings this full-blooded to Intel'southward new X299 platform in the form of the ROG STRIX X299-Due east Gaming. From the AURA Sync Lighting to the reinforced metal-reinforced SafeSlots, to the SupremeFX Audio, everything here is about serious gaming.

ProClockers would similar to give thanks ASUS for sending the ROG STRIX X299-E Gaming over to bank check out!

ASUS's take on the ROG STRIX X299-E Gaming

ROG Strix X299-Eastward Gaming is loaded with powerful tuning, overclocking, cooling and personalization innovations to make your next build as agile every bit your ambitions. We've channeled ROG engineering ingenuity into Strix X299-E Gaming to create a standout ATX motherboard that's tricked out with superior SupremeFX audio for deeper in-game immersion, Aureola Sync lighting with an all-new addressable-RGB-strip header to unleash infinite illumination possibilities, and special mounts that arrive easy to create your own 3D-printed upgrades. Infused with the essential gaming spirit that is ROG, Strix X299-E Gaming is hungry for high-performance Intel® Core™ X Series processors — and ready to satisfy your desire for X299.

Features & Specifications

Specifications

CPU

Intel® Socket 2066 Core™ Ten-Serial Processors

* Refer to www.asus.com for CPU support list

* The Intel® Turbo Boost Engineering 3.0 Support Depends on the CPU types.

Chipset

Intel® X299

Memory

Intel® Core™ X-series Processors (6-core in a higher place)
8 x DIMM, Max. 128GB, DDR4 4133(O.C.)/4000(O.C.)/3866(O.C.)/3733(O.C.)/3600(O.C.)/3466(O.C.)/3400(O.C.)/3333(O.C.)/3300(O.C.)/3200(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666/2400/2133 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
Intel® Cadre™ X-series Processors (iv-cadre)
4 x DIMM, Max. 64GB, DDR4 4133(O.C.)/4000(O.C.)/3866(O.C.)/3733(O.C.)/3600(O.C.)/3466(O.C.)/3400(O.C.)/3333(O.C.)/3300(O.C.)/3200(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666/2400/2133 MHz Not-ECC, United nations-buffered Retentiveness
** Refer to www.asus.com for the Memory QVL (Qualified Vendors Lists).
* Hyper DIMM support is subject to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs.

Multi-GPU Support

Supports NVIDIA® Quad-GPU SLI™ Engineering
Supports NVIDIA® 3-Way SLI™ Technology
Supports NVIDIA® 2-Mode SLI™ Technology
Supports AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Engineering science
Supports AMD 3-Mode CrossFireX™ Technology
Supports AMD two-Fashion CrossFireX Technology

Expansion Slots

44-Lane CPU-
Intel® Core™ X-Series Processors Family
3 10 PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x16/x8)
2 x PCIe three.0 x4 (max at x4 manner) *i
1 10 PCIe three.0/2.0 x1
28-Lane CPU-
Intel® Cadre™ X-Series Processors Family
3 x PCIe 3.0/two.0 x16 (x16, x16/x8, x16/x8/x1)
two x PCIe three.0 x4 (max at x4 manner) *1
1 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x1
16-Lane CPU-
Intel® Core™ X-Serial Processors Family
3 x PCIe iii.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x8/x8, x8/x8/x1)
2 x PCIe three.0 x4 (max at x4 mode) *ane
i ten PCIe 3.0/2.0 x1

Storage

Intel® Core™ X-Series Processors Family unit :
1 ten M.2 Socket 3, with K key, type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices support (SATA & PCIE 3.0 ten 4 mode)
1 x Grand.2 Socket 3, with 1000 key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices support (PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)
viii x SATA 6Gb/s port(s)
Support Raid 0, i, 5, ten
Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology, Intel Rapid Start Technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Prepare

LAN

Intel® I219V
Anti-surge LANGuard
ROG GameFirst IV
Wireless Data Network
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth
Bluetooth V4.ii

Audio

SupremeFX viii-Aqueduct High Definition Audio CODEC S1220A
- Dual Headphone Amplifiers
- Impedance sense for front end and rear headphone outputs
- Supports: Jack-detection, Multi-streaming, Front end Panel Jack-retasking
- Loftier quality 120 dB SNR stereo playback output and 113 dB SNR stereo playback input
- SupremeFX Shielding Technology
- Supports upward to 32-Chip/192kHz playback *2

Audio Features:

SupremeFX Shielding™ Engineering science
Optical S/PDIF out port(south) at dorsum panel
Dedicated audio PCB layers: Separate layers for left and right channels to guard the quality of the sensitive audio signals
Premium Japanese-made audio capacitors: Provide warm, natural and immersive sound with exceptional clarity and fidelity
Sonic Radar Three
Sonic Studio Iii

USB Ports

ASMedia® USB three.one Gen 2 controller :
one 10 USB three.1 Gen 2 front panel connector port(s)
ASMedia® USB 3.1 Gen 2 controller :
ii 10 USB 3.one Gen ii port(s) (2 at dorsum console, , Blazon-A + USB Type-CTM)
Intel® X299 Chipset :
viii x USB three.1 Gen 1 port(southward) (4 at back panel, +blue, four at mid-board)
Intel® X299 Chipset :
4 x USB ii.0 port(south) (2 at dorsum console, , 2 at mid-board)

ROG Sectional Features

ROG RAMCache Ii
ROG CPU-Z
ROG CloneDrive
Overwolf
GameFirst 4
ROG Aura
- Aura Lighting Control
- Aura RGB Strip Headers

Special Features

OC Design – ASUS PRO Clock 2 Technology
ASUS Dual Intelligent Processors 5-Way Optimization past Dual Intelligent Processors five :
- v-Manner Optimization tuning key perfectly consolidates TPU, EPU, DIGI+ VRM, Fan Xpert 4, and Turbo Core App

Aureola:

Aura Lighting Control
Aura RGB Strip Headers
Aura Lighting Furnishings Synchronization with uniform ASUS ROG devices
Aura Addressable Strip Header(s)

ASUS Exclusive Features:

USB BIOS Flashback
AI Suite 3
Ai Charger
Onboard Button: Power
ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Fashion featuring friendly graphics user interface

ASUS EZ DIY:

ASUS EZ Wink iii
ASUS USB BIOS Flashback
ASUS UEFI BIOS EZ Style
Multi-language BIOS

ASUS Q-Blueprint:

ASUS Q-Shield
ASUS Q-Lawmaking
ASUS Q-LED (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Kicking Device LED)
ASUS Q-Slot
ASUS Q-DIMM
ASUS Q-Connector

Gaming Aesthetics:

3D printing friendly
AURA-RGB Lighting
M.2 Onboard(The latest transfer technologies with up to 32Gb/s data transfer speeds)

Back I/O Ports

1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s)
2 x USB three.1 Gen two Blazon-A + USB Type-CTM
4 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 (blue)
2 x USB 2.0 (one port can exist switched to USB BIOS Flashback)
1 x Optical Southward/PDIF out
5 10 Sound Jack(s)
1 x USB BIOS Flashback Button(s)
ane x ASUS Wi-Fi Get! module (Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/one thousand/northward/ac and Bluetooth v4.0/3.0+HS)

Internal I/O Ports

1 x Aura Addressable Strip Header(southward)
i x AAFP connector
2 x Aura RGB Strip Headers
ii ten USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector(s) back up(s) additional iv USB 3.1 Gen 1 port(southward)
1 x USB 2.0 connector(s) back up(s) boosted 2 USB 2.0 port(s)
1 10 K.ii Socket three with One thousand cardinal, type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices back up (SATA & PCIe 3.0 x iv mode)
1 x M.2 Socket 3 with M primal, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices support (PCIe 3.0 x iv way)
i x COM port(south) connector(s)
eight ten SATA 6Gb/southward connector(due south)
1 x Thou.2_FAN connector
1 ten VROC_HW_Key
ane x CPU Fan connector(s)
1 x CPU OPT Fan connector(southward)
2 x Chassis Fan connector(s)
1 x AIO_PUMP connector
ane x W_PUMP+ connector
1 x 24-pin EATX Power connector(s)
one x 8-pin ATX 12V Power connector(southward)
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector(s)
1 x Front panel connector(s)
one ten System panel(s) (Q-Connector)
ane 10 5-pin EXT_FAN(Extension Fan) connector
i x Thermal sensor connector(s)
1 x Power-on button(s)
ane x Clear CMOS jumper(s)
1 10 USB iii.ane Gen 2 front end panel connector
i x CPU_OV jumper

Accessories

User'due south transmission
ASUS Q-Shield
1 x Vertical M.2 bracket set
4 x SATA 6Gb/s cable(south)
ane ten Chiliad.2 Screw Package
1 10 Supporting DVD
1 10 ASUS 2T2R dual band Wi-Fi moving antennas (Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/m/northward/ac compliant)
i 10 SLI HB Span(ii-Way-M)
1 10 Q-Connector
1 x 10-in-1 ROG cablevision label
1 ten Grand.2 screw kit (long screw and mountain)
1 10 Thermal sensor cable pack(south)
one x Cable ties pack(due south)
ROG Fan Label
one ten ROG Door Hanger(s)
1 x Extension Cablevision for RGB strips (80 cm)
ane x Extension cable for Addressable LED
1 10 3D press mount package

BIOS

128 Mb Flash ROM, UEFI AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI3.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 3.0, ACPI vi.0, Multi-language BIOS,
ASUS EZ Flash three, CrashFree BIOS iii, F11 EZ Tuning Sorcerer, F6 Qfan Control, F3 My Favorites, Last Modified log, F12 PrintScreen and ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) memory information

Manageability

WfM 2.0, DMI 3.0, WOL by PME, PXE

Support Disc

Drivers
ASUS Utilities
EZ Update
Anti-virus software (OEM version)

Operating System

Windows® 10 64-bit

Form Factor

ATX Form Cistron
12 inch x nine.6 inch ( thirty.v cm ten 24.four cm )

Note

1. PCIEX4_1 max. at x1 mode
two. Due to limitations in HDA bandwidth, 32-bit/192kHz is not supported for 8-Channel sound

Packaging & Unboxing

Like many of ASUS's other recent STRIX products, the X299-Due east Gaming comes in a colorful box, the actual motherboard taking upwards well-nigh of the front, with the neon colored ROG logo in the groundwork. The Commonwealth of Gamers logo anchors its usual top left corner, and plenty logos for all the supported features line up near the bottom.

The rear of the box gives you highlights of lath specific features along the bottom tertiary, and the motherboard taking upward the top two-thirds, listing its connectivity and supported hardware.

Every bit you tin see the two short sides merely have the ASUS and ROG logos, in addition to the motherboard model.

The peak edge highlights a few features in a plethora of languages.

Opening the box up, we are greeted with a cardboard spacer block, and the motherboard peeks out from under through its anti-static pocketbook.

Lifting the spacer block out, we realize there is actually some goodies inside, we'll open that 1 upward in a moment.
The motherboard is securely held in a cardboard tray with some strategically placed $.25 of cream padding.

Afterward lifting the motherboard tray out, we find all of the 'goodies' in the bottom. A Game On/Game Off door hanger and the usual manuals are in the center. Two flaps open up to reveal all the good stuff.

After a few moments spent extricating all of the included bits from the various cardboard compartments, hither is the final score. Inside the summit spacer block is the angular dual ring WiFi antenna, pictured on the left. Under the motherboard manual was the driver disk, ROG cable stickers, ROG badges and a 20% coupon code to CableMod. The usual parts like SATA cables and rear I/O shield are also buried in the pile, but you get a few interesting extras. First are some RGB extension cables, The always overnice forepart I/O adapter that lets you connect all your front panel cables similar the ability switch and HDD lights out where y'all can see them, and they plug the unabridged associates into the motherboard in ane fell swoop. Also included is the 3D Printing office mounting hardware, and the vertical Yard.2 Bracket. Finishing off the list is some zip ties and a thermal probe for measuring the temperature of anything yous like.

ASUS'south partnership with CableMod is pretty handy as you tin pick up some sleeved cable extensions for your build, or even complete custom cables made specifically for your PSU, and 20% off puts y'all well on your way to a good looking cable management job. Check them out at Http://world wide web.CableMod.com

A Closer Look

The long running ATX form factor probably won't change anytime soon. Along the tiptop (correct in this picture) is Intel's LGA2066 socket, flanked by viii DDR4 sockets. The lower half of the board is dominated by 3 PCIe x16 slots, two PCIe x4 slots, and a unmarried PCIe x1 slot.

The rear of the lath is pretty make clean with very few minor components on this side. The board name is silk screened on the back along with a overnice ROG themed design over near of the board.

Rear I/O is composed of 2 USB two.0 ports, one of which is used for USB BIOS Flashback past pressing the button to the left. 4 USB iii.one Gen i ports sit nether a single Intel Gigabit LAN port. Ii USB three.ane Gen ii ports are up next, one a Type-A and ane a Type-C. Two antenna ports continued the onboard 802.11AC and Bluetooth 4.2 to the world via the included antenna. And towards the bottom are the 8 channel sound ports along with an optical audio output.

Half of the board is dominated by the CPU socket and 8x DDR4 memory slots. In a higher place the CPU is the VRM heatsink, and the ROG logo below lights up in whatever colour or pattern you choose. The cover over the rear I/O too has an RGB accent.

The calorie-free up accent on the rear I/O embrace looks quite nice.

The center logo besides lights upward and gives a actually unique hologram wait.

It tin can be a bit hard to see directly without the lights running, only the ROG logo is etched into a crystal to give that floating holographic effect.

The lower half of the board is a huge pile of connectivity, 6x PCIe slots in various sizes dominate the area, side by side to the large Chipset and Thousand.2 drive combo heatsink.

The lower left corner gives your front panel audio connections, an analog RGB lighting port, and a single COM port. Yous might matter series connectivity is an odd choice this day and age, but with the maker-space bringing a huge upwards rise to IoT and small microcontrollers, this is a very handy port to have for programming and interfacing with them.

Next upward is the POST code readout, and a unmarried power switch. An external fan expansion header is also here.

Closer to the front end of the board we have a USB 3.1 gen one header, a USB 2.0 header, two 4-pin fan/water pump headers, the newer Digital RGB lighting controller port, and your front panel I/O connections.

Just above we've removed the M.two heatsink cover to get a look at the two^nd M.2 port, also as the pre-applied thermal pad to move oestrus from your Yard.2 drive to the heatsink.

The actual heatsink itself is held in place by 3 small screws. They are not captive, so be conscientious non to misplace them while you install your M.2 bulldoze.

Going upwardly the front edge of the lath we have 8x SATA 6Gbps plugs, another USB 3.1 gen i header, and near the elevation is the usual 24-pin ability connectedness.

Also along the front edge is the new USB 3.1 Gen 3 header, and a vertical grand.2 port.

Merely under the front most ram slots is the ASMedia ASM3142 controller for the front USB iii.1 Gen 2 ports, providing upwards to 16Gbps total speed for this header.

Included in the goodies pile are the mounting bracket and everything you need to use this thou.2 header. We accept an Intel 600p series drive installed here to see how the mounting works.

The meridian right corner has 4 LED's that you lot won't likely notice until they come on, pictured here just above the white label. The color coded LED'southward will pb you right to problems with CPU, RAM, and VGA. A final greenish BOOT led is akin to the onetime single beep that tells you everything is practiced to go. They normally flash for a few seconds during initial power on, but apace disappear on a good kick, but one stuck on will bespeak an issue with that sub-system so you tin can become investigate.

Along the elevation of the board are an 8pin EPS and iv pin EPS power connexion for the CPU. Virtually the rear is another analog RGB header, and 2 more four-pin fan plugs.

The VRM heatsink hides an eight stage power commitment system for the CPU.

The VRM'due south are controlled past the Digi+ EPC IC for enhanced voltage control and overclocking stability.

The Pro Clock 2 Base of operations clock generator IC sits right side by side to the forepart ram sockets. Pro Clock works in tandem with the ASUS TPU which can command the CPU overclocking.

Both fries above work under control of ASUS's TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) to provide whatever you put in here, the all-time voltage and clock control possible for maximum stable overclocks.

System Configuration & BIOS

CPU: Intel Core i7-7820X & i7-7740X
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X299-E
RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum SE 3200Mhz
GPU: Galax GTX 1070 HOF
SSDs: Corsair Force Sixty 256GB, 4x Corsair Force GT 240GB, Samsung 960 PRO 2TB
Os: Windows ten Professional X64

The main landing folio shows basic system information.

Ai Tweaker page gives y'all access to most everything overclocking. Here nosotros prepare our memory to XMP speeds and got a bit of a CPU boost also.

As you lot can run across, there is a LOT of options in here for fine tuning your organisation.

The advanced tab gives you lot admission to everything else from shutting downwardly CPU cores and Hyper-Threading to some of the less used settings like hardware prefetch, Chipset settings, and about anything else y'all tin can imagine.

The monitor page shows information well-nigh your arrangement. Things such equally voltages, temperatures, and fan/pump speeds are shown hither. You can also adjust fan and pump speeds equally you come across fit.

The Boot page is fairly self-explanatory, Kicking order and configuration are adjusted here if needed.

Tools are all found on this page. Bios updates, graphics information and ram information tin be found here. Overclocking profiles can exist saved and loaded hither also.

ASUS's EX Tuning Wizard volition ask you some basic questions about your system and so proceeded to overclock and tune the system within reasonable limits for that configuration. If tinkering with voltages, clocks, multipliers and the other myriad of settings isn't your thing, but yous still want to go the all-time performance you can get, you are quite literally a few mouse clicks away from a gratis performance upgrade here.

Last but certainly not least is EzMode. Pressing F7 will bring you to this unmarried page that has everything you need unless you simply actually love to tinker with all the nuts and bolts behind the scenes.

Software

The Rear I/O Area lighting, the center ROG logo also as both analog RGB, and Digital RGB headers are controlled past ASUS's Aureola software on the X299-E. At that place are quite a few effects to cull from, both static and dynamic, but our favorite was the Flash and Trip the light fantastic, every bit well equally the Temperature fashion.

The GameFirst Iv Application allows you to Monitor and command all traffic over the Intel Gigabit Lan connection, as well as meet statistics and vital data. By Default, the application runs in intelligent manner and will prioritize Traffic based on its purpose, but yous can switch to Manual fashion and take over full control. You tin can see here while browsing the web and installing games on Steam for benchmarking where most of the bandwidth is being used.

ASUS's Dual Intelligent Processors 5 application is a powerhouse and one you don't desire to miss. Anything related to optimizing performance tin be establish here, from switching profiles to Auto overclocking to manual overclocking and changing voltages and fan settings is hither. You tin can even clean out temp and other unneeded files in a few clicks all from ane application.

This application besides runs similar to a desktop widget, gives you quick access to cooling, functioning profiles and PC Cleaner without opening the full application.

ASUS'south RAMCACHE 2 carves off a user selectable portion of system retention to speed upward Disk transfers. Even if you have the fastest NVMe drive out there, using your ram as a enshroud can speed it upwards significantly.

Clone Drive does exactly what the proper name implies. If you need to migrate to a new larger or faster SSD down the road, simply cone it over and away you go. It does piece of work for data drives likewise, non just your Bone drive.

Sonic Studio lets you really flex the SupremeFX's audio muscles for the all-time and clearest sounds in all conditions, from movies to music to intense gaming sessions.

Speaking of audio and gaming, Sonic Radar III volition catch audio cues from your favorite games and employ them to provide an authentic directional position of threats on an onscreen radar blazon overlay. Information technology might not distinguish between friend or foe, merely neither one of them will exist sneaking up on y'all anymore.

Functioning Testing

General Performance Testing

All benchmarks are run using stock settings on the i7-7820X CPU, which leaves Turbo Heave 3.0 enabled for some automatic boosting. We noticed it frequently running every bit high every bit four.three GHz under calorie-free to moderate loads, and 3.8-4.0Ghz under moderate to heavy loads. The ram was manually clocked to its XMP rating of 3200 MHz @ 14-16-16-39 speeds to avoid applying any automatic overclocks.

Games where ran at a resolution of 1920 ten 1080 and higher settings enabled.

PCMark 8

"Use the PCMark 8 Storage benchmark to exam the performance of SSDs, HDDs and hybrid drives with traces recorded from Adobe Artistic Suite, Microsoft Part and a selection of pop games. You can test the arrangement drive or any other recognized storage device, including local external drives. Unlike synthetic storage tests, the PCMark 8 Storage benchmark highlights real-world performance differences between storage devices."

Paired with great hardware, we become nifty results. Here, the ROG STRIX X299-E just edges out an identically equipped motorcar

Super PI Modded 1.5

"In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written past D.Takahashi in collaboration with Dr.Y.Kanada at the computer center. This tape should be the current world record. (Details are shown in the windows assistance.) This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environments such equally Windows NT and Windows 95. In order to summate 33.55 million digits, information technology takes within three days with a Pentium xc MHz, 40 MB main memory and 340 MB available storage."

Here we come across a notable decrease in benchmark time. Likely this stems from the BIOS and clock enhancements ASUS has done that keep our i7-7820X running a faster clock speed while under minimal load.

Fritz Chess

Fritz Chess is a criterion in which a fictitious game of chess is played. As each move has to be calculated by the computer, information technology is an excellent test of CPU muscle.

Again, slightly stronger operation out of the X299-E!

CINEBENCH R15

"CINEBENCH is a real-earth cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer's performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON's award-winning animation software Movie theater 4D, which is used extensively by studios and product houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such equally Atomic number 26 Man 3, Oblivion, Life of Pi or Prometheus and much more.

CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics operation across various systems and platforms (Windows and OS Ten). And best of all: It's completely free."

Another strong score, and within the margin of error of another like arrangement.

7-Goose egg

The benchmark shows a rating in MIPS (million instructions per second). The rating value is calculated from the measured speed, and it is normalized with results of Intel Core 2 CPU with multi-threading option switched off. So if you lot accept modern CPU from Intel or AMD, rating values in single-thread mode must be close to real CPU frequency. In that location are 2 tests, compression with LZMA method and decompression with LZMA method. One time the full passes reaches 100, the score is taken

Roughly 600 MIPS more is nothing to sneeze at here.

Memory Performance Testing

AIDA64 Engineer Edition

"FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme Edition ane.50 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for dwelling house users; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business Edition ane.50 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises. The new AIDA64 update implements AVX-optimized benchmarks for the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge processors, adds a brand new video encoding criterion, and supports the latest AMD and nVIDIA graphics processors."

Compared to another nearly identical organisation, we run into a slightly lower read bandwidth, but much-improved write and copy operation.

We also encounter a 0.1ns faster latency.

Passmark Performance Test – Memory Mark – Threaded

"Fast, easy to utilise, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest ™ allows you to objectively criterion a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers."

The STRIX X299-E didn't score quite also in this retention criterion simply notwithstanding turned in swell results.

SiSoft Sandra

"SiSoftware Sandra provides a robust package of diagnostic tools for testing your organisation and teasing out its problems–or potential headaches."

There nosotros become, dorsum to leading the pack again, leading the other system by about a full Gigabyte per second across the board

Storage Testing

ATTO Deejay Criterion

"As the industry's leading provider of loftier-performance storage & network connectivity products, ATTO has created a widely-accepted Disk Criterion freeware utility to help mensurate storage system functioning. As ane of the height tools utilized in the industry, Disk Benchmark identifies performance in hard drives, solid land drives, RAID arrays as well as connections to storage. Pinnacle bulldoze manufacturers, like Hitachi, build and examination every bulldoze using the ATTO Disk Benchmark"

ATTO shows upward that a single SATA Drive has no issues or bottle necks. We volition go ahead and try to RAID multiple SSD'due south together and see if we can find any bottlenecks.

2x Drives – Skillful scaling then far.

3x Drives – still perfect scaling.

And 4x Drives. We still see perfect scaling hither. Intel'due south latest 200 series chipsets can hit right at the 2GB/s mark with iv drives which is indicating a fleck of a bottleneck, the X370 Chipset on this STRIX X370-F exhibits perfect scaling on 4 drives with almost 2.2GB/s.

CrystalDiskMark 3.0

"CrystalDiskMark is designed to chop-chop test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows measuring sequential and random read/write speeds."

Measuring our OS Drive in AHCI mode, the Corsair Force LX nosotros encounter exactly what the manufacturers' specifications show it should be.

A Samsung 960 Pro 2TB K.2 SSD shows total functioning in the STRIX X299'south vertical M.2 port.

Equally SSD

"Test the sequential or random read/write performance without using the cache. Equally SSD Benchmark reads/writes a ane GByte file as well as randomly chosen 4K blocks. Additionally, it performs the tests using ane or 64 threads and information technology determines the SSD's access time.

2 extra benchmark tests examine the drive's beliefs when (i) copying a few big files, a lot of small files and a mixture of file sizes by using buried copy functions of your Bone as well as (2) reading/writing information depending on the information'due south compressibility."

Every bit SSD shows the same equally Crystal Disk Mark for our Os drive.

Game Testing

3DMark – Fire Strike

"Burn down Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today's high-performance gaming PCs. It is our near ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today"

Strong gaming performance, but we encounter a slight hit to our combined score for some reason, which does show an impact to our overall score.

3DMark – Fourth dimension Spy

"3Dmark Fourth dimension Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spay is one of the beginning DirectX 12 apps to exist built "the right fashion" from the ground upwards to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multithreading, Fourth dimension Spy is the ideal examination for benchmarking the latest graphics cards."

The scores nigh line upwards hither.

Yard Theft Automobile: V

"When a young street hustler, a retired bank robber, and a terrifying psychopath detect themselves entangled with some of the almost frightening and deranged elements of the criminal underworld, the U.S. government and the amusement industry, they must pull off a serial of dangerous heists to survive in a ruthless city in which they tin trust nobody, least of all each other."

In simulated game play, we see a strong level of performance

Metro: Terminal Lite

"It Is the Year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of flesh are besieged by deadly threats from exterior – and inside. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and chase a midst the poisoned skies to a higher place."

Developed by 4A Games and published by Deepsilver, Metro: Last Lite uses the 4A game engine. At its highest settings, the 4A game engine is capable of bringing all only the nearly extreme gaming systems to their knees.

Another stiff gaming score, this board seems to live up to its purpose in life.

Overclocking

Using ASUS's automatic system optimization built into the Dual Intelligent Processors five suite required a few mouse clicks, and 2 reboots.

Afterwards a reboot, the organization steps through frequency multipliers and runs some small stability tests before moving on. At one point, the system stopped responding and rebooted. After it finished the final reboot subsequently its run of about 3 minutes, we were given upwards to 4.70 GHz with 2 cores agile, and also oddly plenty, also with half-dozen cores active. This proved stable through several benchmarks, just we establish information technology strange information technology didn't come upwards with linear scaling like we expected. Apparently, ASUS's overclocking system knows what information technology's doing though.

Later getting into the bios and resetting everything to default, we manually overclocked our CPU. Several reboots and tests later, we settled on a spectacular 4.97 GHz beyond all 8 cores, at 1.38V. we as well overclocked out 3200Mhz ram to a hair over 3500Mhz.

This speed took our SuperPi Mod1.5 time from 7 minutes, sixteen seconds to vi minutes, 44 seconds. Cracking at all!

Concluding Thoughts & Determination

ASUS continues to deliver over and over with its STRIX line of products and the X299-E Gaming is no exception. When pitted confronting a near identical system, I pretty well held 1^st place in all of our gaming benchmarks, and most of our system performance benchmarks besides. We were able to attain the highest stable overclock we've gotten yet with our 8 core i7-7820X across all cores at a bit over iv.9Ghz. As most games are all the same lightly threaded, being able to button the clock speeds upward tin can make a big difference in your functioning, and so ASUS is batting yard in that category.

Many Gamers too highly value aesthetics in their prized weapon of digital war, and again ASUS has everything covered. The STRIX products all tend to lean on the neutral gray and black color scheme which works for the majority of builds. Some dainty onboard RGB accents will be plenty for some, only if you lot like lights, y'all can accept lights. 2 regular RGB headers and a newer Digital RGB controller brand certain you can have the all-time looking system in your clan.

Reviewing a board can exist hard on information technology as we hammer information technology criterion after benchmark, back to back for hours on end. The ROG STRIX X299-E Gaming never missed a beat out through any of information technology, and fifty-fifty handled unstable overclocks like a champ, ofttimes letting the benchmark plan crash, rather than the dreaded BSOD you become near of the time. With a street price of well-nigh $350, this is a difficult option to vanquish for your new Kaby Lake-X or even Sky Lake-X gaming build and comes highly recommended by the states. Neat chore as usual ASUS!

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