The X99 platform was recently refreshed ... In theory, this should broaden the appeal of Broadwell-E motherboards sporting fresh and exciting designs. ASUS has gained a lot of consumer confidence ...

This year Intel launched Broadwell-E and to prepare for this launch ASUS ... The X99-A II utilises premium components including an OC socket, DIGI+ power control, T-topology circuit design and ...

The six and eight core Haswell-E processors need to be accompanied by the Intel series 9 chipset, X99 is what it's called ... with motherboard partners like ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI.

There's little doubt as to the X99 ... five 16x PCI-E slots, supporting a maximum of a x8/x8/x8/x8/x8 configuration. However, for the more likely two and three-way setups, Asus has clearly paid ...

The new Ivy Bridge-E based processors are a bit of a redesign ... In an IDLE state the PC (X99 / 5960X / 16GB DDR4 memory / GeForce GTX 780 Ti / SSD / LCS) consumes roughly 100 Watts, that is ...