This is just marketing and I think there Marketing department did an excellent job on - I am not much of desktop person anymore - but this board and chipset sounds total awesome. It looks like it has new memory in it also.
Not sure where this @#$^ is coming from and not related to topic - any case AnandTech web site some how put this statement in wrong topic - it should have been response to the above topic.
This motherboard looks like it designed very well - only one thing I wish it would have it more USB C ports than just one of them - But this maybe because it a desktop and not as important as in mobile platforms - since you don't need to provide power with it.
I'd love to see more of them too; but suspect it'll have to wait for the 300 series chipsets. Rumor has it that they'll have a half dozen 3.1g2 ports. Currently adding that speed requires a 3rd party controller and desktop mobo makers seem unwilling to offer lesser USB speeds on a C port. That strikes me as a reasonable decision; but I'd pair it with not offering the speed on A ports at all to have a pair of C's. I'm not aware of any mobo maker doing that though.
To make it even better is to have thunderbolt ports - but not sure if Video portion of TB 3 would help desktop machines with dedicated Video cards - unless they found efficient way to route the video signals from card to port.
I haven't seen any options that don't amount to routing a cable from a video out on the DGPU to a video in on the mobo (or TB addon card) that can be fed into the TB output. Without cooperation from the GPU makers to either integrate a TB controller on their card or to route video out over PCIe to feed the TB3 controller I don't think it's possible. For Intels IGPs its easy since the mobo maker can route displayport out directly from the IGP into the TB controller; anything else is probably doomed to be a permakludge in desktops.
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BrokenCrayons - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
Those marketing images...they could stand to tone down the white haze around the chipset heatsink a bit.MrSpadge - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
Why? It's sooo cool, it's freezing around the chipset!HStewart - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
This is just marketing and I think there Marketing department did an excellent job on - I am not much of desktop person anymore - but this board and chipset sounds total awesome. It looks like it has new memory in it also.Slaveguy - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
How did my bowel movement following a late night of eating raw meat and lifting weights end up here as a comment on Anandtech?HStewart - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
Not sure where this @#$^ is coming from and not related to topic - any case AnandTech web site some how put this statement in wrong topic - it should have been response to the above topic.HStewart - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
This motherboard looks like it designed very well - only one thing I wish it would have it more USB C ports than just one of them - But this maybe because it a desktop and not as important as in mobile platforms - since you don't need to provide power with it.DanNeely - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
I'd love to see more of them too; but suspect it'll have to wait for the 300 series chipsets. Rumor has it that they'll have a half dozen 3.1g2 ports. Currently adding that speed requires a 3rd party controller and desktop mobo makers seem unwilling to offer lesser USB speeds on a C port. That strikes me as a reasonable decision; but I'd pair it with not offering the speed on A ports at all to have a pair of C's. I'm not aware of any mobo maker doing that though.HStewart - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
To make it even better is to have thunderbolt ports - but not sure if Video portion of TB 3 would help desktop machines with dedicated Video cards - unless they found efficient way to route the video signals from card to port.DanNeely - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
I haven't seen any options that don't amount to routing a cable from a video out on the DGPU to a video in on the mobo (or TB addon card) that can be fed into the TB output. Without cooperation from the GPU makers to either integrate a TB controller on their card or to route video out over PCIe to feed the TB3 controller I don't think it's possible. For Intels IGPs its easy since the mobo maker can route displayport out directly from the IGP into the TB controller; anything else is probably doomed to be a permakludge in desktops.stanleyipkiss - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
Is it just me or has 10Gbit networking been absent from all X299 motherboards? What gives?DanNeely - Monday, September 11, 2017 - link
Is that a 6pin PCIe power header I see bent over 90* next to the ATX 24pin header? If so, for more GPU power?