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ASRock Fatal1ty X99 Professional Motherboard Review

Luke Hill March 16, 2015 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

Rating: 8.0.

ASRock's Fatal1ty series of motherboards caters for gaming enthusiasts and today we have the line-up's flagship in for review – the X99 Professional. With 4-card SLI and CrossFire support, Killer and Intel NICs, and enhanced audio, does ASRock's red-and-black Fatal1ty X99 Professional live up to its top-of-the-line status by carrying the flag for its team?

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Utilising an LGA 2011-3 processor and the X99 chipset, ASRock's Fatal1ty X99 Professional has a wealth of underlying features to offer enthusiast gamers. True support for 4-card SLI and CrossFire configurations, simultaneous provision for two high-speed M.2 storage devices, and a general assortment of gaming-orientated upgrades are indicative of the motherboard's flagship status.

It is a fair to suggest that the enthusiast PC gaming community will be split between tinkerers and those who just want to play. ASRock caters for the former group with onboard buttons, voltage measurement points, and a vigorous (1300W!) power delivery system. While the latter may point out dual BIOS redundancy and sizeable cooling heatsinks for minimising their gaming system's downtime.

Has ASRock successfully tied together an extensive set of features into a gaming motherboard worthy of flying the flag for the company's Fatal1ty series?

Features:

  • ASRock Super Alloy
  • Gaming Armor
  • Digi Power, 12 Power Phase design
  • 5 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 Half Mini-PCIe
  • Supports AMD 4-Way CrossFireX™ and NVIDIA® 4-Way SLI™
  • 7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection (Realtek ALC1150 Audio Codec), Supports Purity Sound™ 2 & DTS Connect
  • Intel® Gigabit LAN + Qualcomm® Atheros® Killer LAN
  • 10 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (PCIe Gen3 x4), 1 M.2 (PCIe Gen2 x4 & SATA3)
  • 11 USB 3.0 (4 Front, 6 Rear, 1 Vertical Type A), 6 USB 2.0 (4 Front, 1 Rear, 1 Fatal1ty Mouse Port)
  • 1 COM Port Header, 1 Thunderbolt™ AIC Connector
  • Supports ASRock HDD Saver Technology, Full Spike Protection, ASRock Cloud, APP Shop, F-Stream, Key Master

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  3. Dave
    May 30, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    You guys make some weird choices. You have trouble using the 2666MMhz g.skill memory and opted to use memory from Corsair, but later in the review you say that the 3000Mhz G.Skill memory was performing fine. So why not do the main tests with the 3000Mhz memory instead of 2666Mhz memory from another manufacturer. It seems to me that the 3000Mhz and 2666Mhz memory modules of G.Skill are closer to each other than 2666Mhz memory from different manufacturers..

  4. Angelo Felan
    September 7, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    so what’s better for gaming the z170 or the x99

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