More X99 news this morning as a photo of the ASUS X99-Deluxe surfaced on the web. The motherboard comes with gorgeous black and white looks. The CPU is based on 8-phases VRM with a 4-phase one for DDR4, it has eight DDR4 DIMM slots. Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16, one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x4), and an additional PCI-Express 2.0 x4.

X99 is developed for the 6 and 8-core DDR4 supporting Haswell-E HEDT platform and is based on socket LGA2011-3.The motherboards based on X99 can support a whopping five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 which can be arranged in these slot configurations, x16/NC/x16/NC/x8, or x16/NC/x8/x8/x8 and yeah, even x8/x8/x8/x8/x8.  X99 will bring a whopping 10-port SATA 6 Gb/s storage controller supporting RAID RST and SRT and SSD TRIM on RAID 0 configurations.

Network connectivity shows two gigabit Ethernet interfaces and Wireless LAN 802.11 ac WLAN. There is 8-channel onboard audio with Crystal Sound 2.