Memory Performance
AIDA64 Engineer
Memory performance is about where we expected it to be, as we’re not using the fastest kit in the world. However, that’s hardly hurt the benchmarks, as the X299 platform has been winning the #1 spot in most benchmarks so far.
SiSoft Sandra
The same is true here, with performance right where we expected it to be.
Combined Latency Test
Latency is a little high, but that does often seem to be a by-product of the higher core count CPUs, but still a respectable score overall and what we expected.
leak not even intel can do this
“Optane ready” is not a pro – it’s actually Intel’s way of pushing out the competition in NVME and SSD storage. After you spend the big bucks on these motherboards, you’ll have to shell out even more to buy a “VROC upgrade key” to enable RAID features. Want a bootable RAID0 array to take advantage of the X299 chipset’s RAID, optimized for this sort of storage? Not without Optane drives or the VROC key you won’t. It’s a completely artificial limitation.
Also, don’t bother even TRYING to buy a VROC key. None for sale as of yet… Intel forced Gigabyte and others to rush out these X299 motherboards two months ahead of schedule.