Has anyone tested this board?

[Asus-Freak]

EVGA X99 Micro. Getting a little tired waiting on Asus for a mATX option...

 

[Going Bald]

EVGA X99 Micro. Getting a little tired waiting on Asus for a mATX option...

You and me both. I looked at the EVGA, but the specs did not appeal to me. I have contacted Asus and their answer last week (after 4 weeks of silence) was "we have no plans at this time to release an X99 board in the mATX format".
I wanted the M.2 PCIEx4 Gen3 slot and the EVGA doesn't have it.
So I ordered the Asrock Fatal1ty X99M Killer. Should be here by this weekend.
Will let you know how it goes as this is the last part I need for my new build.

 

[Asus-Freak]

You and me both. I looked at the EVGA, but the specs did not appeal to me. I have contacted Asus and their answer last week (after 4 weeks of silence) was "we have no plans at this time to release an X99 board in the mATX format".
I wanted the M.2 PCIEx4 Gen3 slot and the EVGA doesn't have it.
So I ordered the Asrock Fatal1ty X99M Killer. Should be here by this weekend.
Will let you know how it goes as this is the last part I need for my new build.

Good luck with this, anxious to hear 'bout your experience with this board. I recently tested a few ASRock Z97 boards and had numerous problems, particularly with their UEFI bios. In conversation with their tech support people they quite rudely informed me that they were a "Windows Only" platform and didn't support any alternative OS. I hadn't discussed alternate OS's I was only wanting the bios to recognize EFI partitions rather having to use some shell program to manually add them to bios boot options. As there's always been ASRock issues with sleep and power management, complicating those with X99 platform looks quite challenging. I'll stay tuned with great interest... Thanks

 

[Going Bald]

Good luck with this, anxious to hear 'bout your experience with this board. I recently tested a few ASRock Z97 boards and had numerous problems, particularly with their UEFI bios. In conversation with their tech support people they quite rudely informed me that they were a "Windows Only" platform and didn't support any alternative OS. I hadn't discussed alternate OS's I was only wanting the bios to recognize EFI partitions rather having to use some shell program to manually add them to bios boot options. As there's always been ASRock issues with sleep and power management, complicating those with X99 platform looks quite challenging. I'll stay tuned with great interest... Thanks

Got the board and started to put everything together and ran into a problem.
The Corsair H105 is about 7mm too wide to fit in the Lian Li PC-V358B case I bought. I have ordered the H100i and it should be here before Christmas (I hope).

 

[Asus-Freak]

Got the board and started to put everything together and ran into a problem.
The Corsair H105 is about 7mm too wide to fit in the Lian Li PC-V358B case I bought. I have ordered the H100i and it should be here before Christmas (I hope).

That's got to be frustrating, can't even bench build and starting testing. Thanks for the update.

 

[Going Bald]

That's got to be frustrating, can't even bench build and starting testing. Thanks for the update.

UPS delivered the H100i yesterday and I installed it, finishing the build.
Asrock X99M Killer, i7 5930K, EVGA GTX980, M.2 Samsung XP941 512GB. 4x4 G.Skill DDR4
Created the UniBeast installer USB, patched the kernel, edited the boot.plist with all the required boot flags.
Stuck on IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport(4.3.1f2) KP
with dependencies:
IOBluetoothFamily
IOUSBFamily
IOACPIFamily
IOPCIFamily

Looking for solutions now.
I tried cheating a bit by doing a clean install with the -UD7 on a Hitachi laptop drive and installing the nVidia drivers and running MultiBeast with the selections for the Asrock board and installing it in the new build. Same KP.
Going to try today with Mavericks and see if it fares any better.

 

[Going Bald]

Looking for solutions now.
I tried cheating a bit by doing a clean install with the -UD7 on a Hitachi laptop drive and installing the nVidia drivers and running MultiBeast with the selections for the Asrock board and installing it in the new build. Same KP.
Going to try today with Mavericks and see if it fares any better.

Mavericks is working great with the HD5770 installed. Also created a RAID0 drive with a pair of 256GB XP941s - see post 34 at http://www.tonymacx86.com/mountain-...-os-x-10-8-5-using-tonymacx86-tool-set-4.html for Black Magic bench of the RAID0

Sleep is not working at all - it will start to sleep, I here a loud click and it shuts down as if it is asleep, then it comes right back up. Let it do this a few times without interference and it reboots.

Also, I find it impossible to boot with a GTX980. Even with boot flag nv_disable=1 the GPU never comes on and initializes. Leave it running where it hangs and eventually it reboots itself.

Tried cheating and installing everything in the X58A-UD7 - Fresh install Mav, install GPU, boot nv_disable=1, install drivers, reboot. Everything works except audio and NIC, but I did not install drivers for the -UD7.
Put the GPU and drive in the X99 build and it will not boot. Stops at AppleIOBluetoothHCIController complete and refuses to initialize the GPU.

Did the same thing with Yosemite with the same results. GTX980 just will not work with this board and OS X.

HD5770, OTOH, works just fine with it if you disable sleep. Might try with a R9 GPU later.

I really can't recommend this board for OS X use - get a Gigabyte board or Asus board if available.

 

[tony1446]

EVGA X99 Micro. Getting a little tired waiting on Asus for a mATX option...

You and me both. I looked at the EVGA, but the specs did not appeal to me. I have contacted Asus and their answer last week (after 4 weeks of silence) was "we have no plans at this time to release an X99 board in the mATX format".
I wanted the M.2 PCIEx4 Gen3 slot and the EVGA doesn't have it.
So I ordered the Asrock Fatal1ty X99M Killer. Should be here by this weekend.
Will let you know how it goes as this is the last part I need for my new build.

I have an vega x99 few motherboard that I have been using iy for a windows pc. I would like to build a mackintosh with it. Does anyone have any experance with this motherboard?

I have
64gb of memory
i7 6 core intel processor
water cooled processor

 

[tony1446]

I have an vega x99 few motherboard that I have been using iy for a windows pc. I would like to build a mackintosh with it. Does anyone have any experance with this motherboard?

I have
64gb of memory
i7 6 core intel processor
water cooled processor

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