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Just drop them graphics cards in there for a weird sexy combo, the lowest it'll drop to is a x4 lane configuration, meaning you have excellent bus bandwidth for current generation graphics cards as you are still using Gen 3.0 PCI Express lanes.
When powered up it lights up in a very subtle fashion. The X99A Godlike Gaming makes use of a EATX form factor. So it is a hint larger then your regular ATX motherboard form factor. All the LED activated bits on the motherboard you can see right now are color configurable as well as animation configurable. So you could emulate the LEDs breathing etc. We'll demo that in a video later on.
In-between and above the PCIe slots (close to the PCH) you'll see a cute small connector, this in fact is a M.2 PCIE SSD port. It has x4 PCI-Express lanes available meaning it can have a max bandwidth of 32 Gbps. Again something we'll test later on in the article.
That's five PCI-Express Generation 3.0 x16 slots, which have metal shielding at the top side of them. This is done to make the slots more sturdy. Graphics cards get heavier each day with big coolers.
5 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (PCI_E1~E4, PCI_E6), support up to 4-way mode
- 1-way mode: x16/ x0/ x0/ x0/ x0
- 2-way mode: x16/ x0/ x0/ x16/ x0*, x16/ x0/ x0/ x8/ x0**
- 3-way mode: x16/ x0/ x0/ x16/ x8*, x8/ x8/ x0/ x8/ x0**
- 4-way mode: x8/ x8/ x0/ x16/ x8*, x8/ x8/ x0/ x8/ x4**
** For the CPU that supports 28 PCIe lanes
Mind you that if you use the M.2. slot you will lose the SATA5/6 ports. This new connector offers not 10 Gbps storage bandwidth but a whopping 32 Gbps thanks to a x4 PCI Express Gen 3.0 connection.
Small and subtle detail; you can find LEDs underneath most of the shielding and heatsinks on this motherboard.
Also the NICs are LED active, it looks quite different alright. Love it, like it, hate it smite it :) Taste differ per person, I think all the LED stuff is looking cool. Especially since you can configure all colors (aside from the NICs LED colors). The NICs all can be placed in DoubleShot-X3 PRO mode to combine Killer WIFI with two Killer LANs.
