The ASUS ROG Strix X299-XE Gaming Motherboard Review: Strix Refined
by Joe Shields on December 11, 2017 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Asus
- X299
- Skylake-X
- Kaby Lake-X
Gaming Performance 2017: AoTS Escalation
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our AOTS testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p and less than 1 frame per second in 4K. The ROG Strix was in the middle of both sets of results.
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DanNeely - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link
Blame USB3, and not wanting to fill up space with mere 2.0 ports on a high end board.USB3, Sata, and chipset PCIe are all sharing the same limited set of 26 high speed IO ports on the chipset. The Nominal counts are: The back panel uses 8 lanes (6xUSB3.x, ethernet, wifi). 8 more are being used for sata. 8 for the pair of M.2 slots. PCIe slots take up 4+1+1 = 6. Front panel USBC is 3 (2 for the 2x 5gb USBA header, 1 for the 1x10gb USBC header. That's a nominal 33 lanes being used; lane sharing and onboard USB-C hubs make up the difference; but USBC hubs only add additional potential bottlenecking so adding more of them doesn't really do anything except bump up specsheet numbers.
Ultimately what we need is to either move M.2 PCIe lanes from the chipset to the CPU (getting reasonable IO out of the southbridge was at lot easier before they started eating 8 or 12 of the available lanes); or a larger next generation southbridge. Ideally the latter would be combined with an 8 lane wide DMI on higher end platforms to reduce the bottlenecking that running everything through the equivalent of a PCIe x4 connection creates.
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Morawka - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link
The Rampage VI Extreme MSRP is $649.99, the price you have linked is from a 3rd party seller.Joe Shields - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link
Thank you. Normally we denote this, however it was missed upon publication. At the time the table was created, I do not believe newegg.com sold it themselves. Either way, the proper price is up!svan1971 - Thursday, December 14, 2017 - link
whats the chance we get a ROG MAXIMUS X CODE review?davidden119@gmail.com - Monday, January 15, 2018 - link
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