Asus X99-Deluxe II Review

Overclocking

We aim for a simple overclock with our test Core i7-6850K, by just increasing the vcore and seeing how far our Corsair H100i all-in-one liquid cooler will get us. We haven't had to go past 1.4V yet to get to 4.4GHz and the X99-Deluxe II managed this using a vcore of 1.36V - not the lowest or the highest we've seen, but this was enough for a lengthy prime95 smallFFT run and churning through our benchmark suite for an hour or two.

Software

The Asus X99-Deluxe II's software suite is practically identical to the X99-A II so to save repeating ourselves, we'll refer you to that review if you want to take a look as our review of it only took place in June and at a glance, all the software was the same.

A quick rundown includes AI suite, which offered plenty of options for Windows-based overclocking and system cooling tweaking. You also get Aura - Asus's RGB lighting control software, which allows you to tweak the individual lighting zones or a group, apply different effects and of course pick from a mass of colour options. However, it's also worth noting that you can now do this in the EFI with the X99-Deluxe II, albeit with reduced colour options, but at least is saves you having to install yet more software if just red or green suffice.

EFI

Again there's very little difference between this board and the X99-A II, so we'll refer you back to that review but also provide some EFI screengrabs below.














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