X99 or x299....

Hmmm!

Do i finally get to see my next MoBo?? 

I really hope evga has been focusing on the bios BEFORE the release, unlike the x99 lineup and the pains that came with it.

bcavnaugh
Sweet a New Dark in the Works, so glad it is not an RGB or Rainbow Style Motherboard.
 Comes with USB 2.0 Headers.
   NO RGB NO RGB NO RGB   
 

who knows. Jacob did answer yes to the question if evga would ever make a board with them

Hmm don't know how I feel about having tiny fan on a mono. The last one that had that was really high pitched and it annoyed the hell out of me so I ended up removing it.

rjohnson11
I sort of like the RGB motherboards myself.

Did you not see that X299 FTW RGB Rainbow Motherboard?

Come on EVGA, hurry up and release X299, so everyone unloads their X99 2011 stuff as cheap goodies for me to buy. 

Sales in June ?
 
8 and 10 core Intel Skylake-X CPUs with 44 PCIe lanes on a X299 MB
 
wish Computex show was closer

Fan on chipset. 

seta8967

bcavnaugh
Sweet a New Dark in the Works, so glad it is not an RGB or Rainbow Style Motherboard.
 Comes with USB 2.0 Headers.
   NO RGB NO RGB NO RGB   
 

Why deny something that someone else may want that you can simply turn off or switch to a single color. RGB is nice because it can fit different peoples need. You could just turn it off, another person could have static red, a 3rd person could go rainbow. The benefits can fit everyone's needs and wants with no one losing anything. The company wins by covering everyone's wants with a single board and more profits, people win by getting the color they want and able to change it as they want

So forgive me if I come off as the crotchety old man with this. Lol

I imagine he sees it the same way I do. An un-nessecary design expense and charge.

That circuitry space could be dedicated to another feature that actually improves performance or taken out and the price of the board dropped a few dollars.

Meanwhile if people want rgb, they can still plug LED strips into the PSU like they did for years before we had to start soldering tri color leds to everything that has power flowing through it.

It's gotten so rediculous I'm waiting for Intel to start including them in the heat spreader on new CPUs so you can get a glow around your heatsink and control it with yet another random piece of software. That or ssd makers Jack's their prices $10 and start putting them in the ssd housing and on m.2 cards that require yet another software beyond the one for the mobo, the one for the graphics card, and the one for the ram sticks.

I just don't see the fascination or need. Kinda reminds me of the kid putting a flame decal on his bike because it "made it faster"

Bruno747
It's gotten so rediculous I'm waiting for Intel to start including them in the heat spreader on new CPUs so you can get a glow around your heatsink and control it with yet another random piece of software.

If the leaked clocks for the X299 platform are correct, I think you will see the CPU glow under the heatsink without needing any leds.
 

bcavnaugh

Bruno747

seta8967

bcavnaugh
Sweet a New Dark in the Works, so glad it is not an RGB or Rainbow Style Motherboard.
 Comes with USB 2.0 Headers.
  NO RGB NO RGB NO RGB   

Why deny something that someone else may want that you can simply turn off or switch to a single color. RGB is nice because it can fit different peoples need. You could just turn it off, another person could have static red, a 3rd person could go rainbow. The benefits can fit everyone's needs and wants with no one losing anything. The company wins by covering everyone's wants with a single board and more profits, people win by getting the color they want and able to change it as they want

So forgive me if I come off as the crotchety old man with this. Lol

I imagine he sees it the same way I do. An un-nessecary design expense and charge.

That circuitry space could be dedicated to another feature that actually improves performance or taken out and the price of the board dropped a few dollars.

Meanwhile if people want rgb, they can still plug LED strips into the PSU like they did for years before we had to start soldering tri color leds to everything that has power flowing through it.

It's gotten so rediculous I'm waiting for Intel to start including them in the heat spreader on new CPUs so you can get a glow around your heatsink and control it with yet another random piece of software. That or ssd makers Jack's their prices $10 and start putting them in the ssd housing and on m.2 cards that require yet another software beyond the one for the mobo, the one for the graphics card, and the one for the ram sticks.

I just don't see the fascination or need. Kinda reminds me of the kid putting a flame decal on his bike because it "made it faster"

From another crotchety old man.
  I agree they should dump the M.2 Key M – 2 & E – 1 Slots Altogether on the X299 Classified & Dark Platform.
Let the Z Owners and Laptop Owners have them.

There is enough room for both improvements and the RGB stuff. Yes dropping it might save a few dollars. Think about it from the companies perspective. They add RGB that increases the boards prices by 10 bucks (estimate), and it will keep customers using their board and maybe bring customers to their boards. Yes some might leave, but for those that want RGB (either mono or rainbow) it is a deciding factor. My wife used to use a z97 (we're selling it so its in pieces and can't show you) but she used a pink/black build, due to lack of pink anything her build was rather lackluster and mostly just black. RGB now allows her to get that pink color in her fans/led strips/whatever. RGB allows people to have those unique colors for builds and then allows them to match those colors. It simply makes it easier for a company to make a RGB fan than a blue fan, red fan, white fan, green fan. They sell 1 RGB fan, then if someone changes their build they can keep using the same fan. It does have a purpose though, yes it is overdone for most of us.... RGB SSD's really, why? RGB fans/strips/RAM I can understand because those things are reuseable and are very visible on a board. People usually try to hide SSD/HDD's though... Yes you might not want it, but the company isn't selling to a single person but to a wide group of people and it must intice it's audience by every means possible. RGB is the kick right now, it will die down to just key parts like I said before fans/led strips/RAM, but it will be around. I like simple, maybe some dim white lights to make things visible in the dark but not flashy, but I am not the majority.
 
Why drop the M.2? It's used for wifi/bluetooth, for those of us that have a wired connection but bluetooth connected phone/wifi direct connected backup it has been essential for moving data with ease. The SSD speed are much faster and much smaller, allowing for higher bench's. They are getting more and more compact and larger storage. We are moving from 3.5HDD to 2.5SSD to m.2SSD now. Technology is moving forward and the formats are changing for the better. Intel may release large sized consumer Optane storage, that use M.2 or PCIE3.0, and benchers will use them to get that higher benchmark.
 
Disregarding new technology only limits ourselves, why not keep with silicone CPU's forever? Because it has limits and we must use new methods. SATA has a limit and we must move on to better things. If we didn't we would still be using tubes and coaxial cables.
 
 
 

Let's hope evga has improved other features on it's motherboards.
Better onboard sound chip
Better audio software
Improved DAC
desktop software to control system fans and overclock
 
One can hope right?

A fan on motherboard :(