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  • PeachNCream - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link

    I think it's pretty safe to say that motherboards are too expensive and the things offered in exchange for the price like a tiny status screen and RGB LED strips on heatsinks don't really justify the cost.
  • Destoya - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link

    The HEDT platform motherboards have always suffered from being overpriced, but I do agree that the feature creep is not keeping up with the MSRP increases. Just a generation ago the X99 Deluxe had a MSRP of $400 with the X99-A at $275, both usually selling for around $20-30 less than that even close to release time. The addition of thunderbolt, U.2, and USB 3.1 on this board are notable but not really worth $100+, especially considering other features such as the overall number of Sata/USB ports has actually decreased over the past 3.5 years.
  • Maleorderbride - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link

    I generally agree (as an owner of an X99 Deluxe II), but at least one can sell all of the doodads, bells, and whistles on eBay leaving you with just a solid board.

    Selling the TB3 card and a bunch of completely unnecessary cables left me with ~$90. Not ideal, but clearly someone wants a "CPU Installer Tool" and the rest of the crap.
  • Araemo - Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - link

    Do those add-ins even work?

    I bought the ThunerboltEX3 for a board it didn't come bundled with (but listed compatibility with it as a selling point), and it took me a few hours of trying different bios settings and driver version combinations to get it to even install properly within Windows, and still came up against a wall where it broke hibernate and hybrid sleep support in Windows.

    For something I bought as a 'future proofing' add-on to my build, I was very unhappy with it, and after trying to correct it with ASUS support for over a month, I gave up and returned it to Amazon while I still could.
  • CheapSushi - Friday, February 16, 2018 - link

    The PCBs are better in general with higher quality VRMs, MOSFETs, SMDs, Caps, etc. I see zero issue to complain about this when there's so many other options already. Don't buy it if you don't want it. Were you even in the market for the highest end enthusiast boards? Probably not anyway.
  • sonicmerlin - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link

    Wow it has WiGig. What would that even be used for? Can you test the performance?
  • 3DoubleD - Saturday, February 17, 2018 - link

    I found it strange that it was in the title, but they hardly mentioned it in the review.
  • 69369369 - Sunday, February 18, 2018 - link

    Streaming 4K porn.
  • pyrrh0 - Thursday, February 22, 2018 - link

    WiGig (802.11ad) wireless access points already exist in the consumer space; Netgear's Nighthawk X10 is one. Dell and other PC manufacturers have wireless docks using the same technology. Multi-Gbps actual throughput, but limited to about 30 ft line-of-sight.
  • notR1CH - Monday, February 19, 2018 - link

    I really wish 10 GbE would become more standard on high end boards.
  • Gunbuster - Monday, February 19, 2018 - link

    That OLED looks like they spent a whopping 20 minutes on deciding what screen to source and designing the placement/housing in autocad. I just picked up a happy meal toy for my daughter that paid more attention to detail.

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