Networking Performance
Passmark Performance Test 8 – Ethernet
Networking performance is as you would expect, delivering fast performance and low CPU usage throughout. There’s nothing groundbreaking here, but there’s only so much a 1Gbps port can do, and the Gaming 9 makes the most of it.
Passmark Performance Test 8 – CPU Work Load
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.