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ASRock X99 WS-E/10G Motherboard Review

At over £600, this motherboard really should come with the kitchen sink, but the bundle is fairly standard, with a few exceptions.

ASRock X99 10 Gigabit Review KitGuru BoxASRock X99 10 Gigabit Review KitGuru Package

The motherboard itself is reassuringly protected in a foam tray. This should keep it reasonably safe in transit.

ASRock X99 10 Gigabit Review KitGuru Bundle

In the box, alongside the expected rear cut-out port shield, there are six SATA 6Gb/sec cables, but the most welcome inclusion is the trio of SLI bridges. There's a flexible two-way ribbon cable, plus non-flexible three-way and four-way options.

There's also a solitary screw for securing a M.2 storage card.

ASRock X99 10 Gigabit Review KitGuru Manuals

Separate manuals for the motherboard hardware and software are included, alongside the driver CD.

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10 comments

  1. I think for this much money it should have at least one USB 3.1 port. When I bought my first workstation motherboard around the time USB 3.0 was introduced, my board came with two. And it cost maybe half as much as this.

  2. I don’t think that USB 3.1 was readily available at time of release.

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  5. Yes, they do need to do a USB 3.1 version, as Asus has done with some of its workstation boards. But otherwise there is little to fault on this board other than the price – and even that is mitigated when you look at just how expensive 10Gbit Ethernet NICs are.

  6. That’s actually a good point. USB 3.1 wasn’t readily available until last year and this motherboard was announced in 2014. Guess I assumed this was a new release…after all, what is the point of reviewing a year-old motherboard? LOL

  7. Yeah 10Gb has to be making up the bulk of that price. I hope the leap in SSD technology supposedly coming i.e. Optane helps drive a push for 10Gb becoming the standard that 1Gb has become.

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  9. Yes, it’s ludicrously quick as my tests showed!

  10. To test the 10Gbit…