ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

Pros: Nice board and easy to work with

Cons: The FX-8350 factory fan will not clamp down and is a tad too short for this board. So I am taking off one egg due to the cpu fan mounting bracket.

Pros: All the ports worked and the layout on the board for fan connectors and I/O devices was convenient and hassle free. I had some trouble with the UEFI firmware, but that was just due to my own ignorance.

The software that comes with the board is neat and fun to tinker with, but ultimately I opted to not leave it installed. The one thing I did do was use the feature to add my own picture on the boot screen.

Cons: The SATA port configuration is not very useful. Only ports 1-4 can be set up as RAID, and if you do then ports 5-6 can only be IDE. So if you want to have a SSD and then some HDD's in RAID, buy another board or use your SSD in IDE mode (like anyone would do that).

The update software will not connect to their servers to download updates. Seems to be a common problem with Asus boards. However, you can still go to their website and download the updates the old-fashion way.

Other Thoughts: The extra SATA cables that were included came in handy. So that was nice. Ultimately, I like this board and I'll probably be buying another Asus board next time.

Pros: Good motherboard. i was looking for a mother for a while, because my budget wasn't too high i was looking for all the modern features at a lower price. i finally stopped at this one because it had all i needed. I'm a single graphic card user and so there was no point for me to get the 990FX chipset. (i think the second card is just a waist of money). So the mother fired up with no problems whatsoever. I have paired it with a Vishera X6 CPU, 8 Gb Gskill sniper elite 1866Ghz (which is not in the compatibility memory list, but anyway). The reason why i bought this memory is because it was on sale and it has exactly the same specs an timings like the Gskill which is in the memory list.

Cons: There a two cons that i've experienced with this motherboard. First i can't get the memory to run at 1866Ghz, i've loocked up guides, changed the settings manually in the bios, but nothing. the mother won't boot at 1866Ghz. It works fine at 1600Ghz.
Second after installing the windows on the Samsung 830 SSD, i have problems with the mouse. My mouse lags with this motherboard, no mather which usb port i change it lags. Replaced the batteries, even tried a different mouse. Every time the same thing. The mouse just lags, it stops for several miliseconds. It's ok in the desktop mode, but in shooting games it's unacceptable. didn't try to reinstall the windows yet because i don't want to. it's not my first build and i've never experienced problems like this with my other builds. i'm a big fan of ASUS motherboards

Other Thoughts: Overall it's a good motherboard for the money and for a single video card user. I recommend it to everyone on a low budget.

Pros: Everything! This MB worked great from the get go. I'm not a gamer so I didn't do all of the time and process testing. I installed the board, ran the enclosed ASUS disk and was off and running.

Cons: None, zip, nada.

Other Thoughts: I've had 4 HDDs hooked up to transfer files and no hiccups at all. The only thing holding me back is my HDD, need to get an SSD for this one. The kit that I got from Newegg for a build in tech classes turned me on to ASUS, AMD and GSKILL - KILLER STUFF!

WINDOWS EXPERIENCE INDEX
PROCESSOR - 7.3
MEMORY – 7.3
GRAPHICS – 7.6
GAMING GRAPHICS - 7.6
PRIMARY HARD DISK - 5.9

Pros: - Fast shipping! Ordered on a Friday afternoon and got it on a monday afternoon with regular shipping! thanks newegg!

- This motherboard changed my gaming experience very much. I used to own a low budget motherboard that came in with my pc bundle that i bought here a year ago in newegg. It is a really good upgrade because my old motherboard was "bottlenecking" my graphics card! ALL my games i mean literally ALL the games i play including dota 2, starcraft 2, battlefield 3, crysis 2, tomb raider,skyrim have stuttering fps or low fps and cannot even have a stable fps no matter what setting I do! I have a Radeon HD 6850 and as soon as i upgraded to this motherboard all my gaming problems were GONE! i have a solid 60fps on my games on max settings with 1920X1080 res! the only games that i cannot max of course is crysis 3 and battlfield 3 because of my radeon HD 6850! But overall I am very happy with this motherboard, It took me hours to hook it up since Its my first time hooking up a motherboard and still learning but other than that its all good. Oh and i have a zambezi fx 8120 and my old motherboard is bottlenecking that too and it stayed only at 3.1 ghz but now i have this motherboard it went up to 3.9 ghz! NO OVERCLOCK! I dont want to overclock just yet since im good with my gaming experience now.

Cons: NONE (For now)

Other Thoughts: Its been almost 2 months and I have waited before writing this review but overall this motherboard has served me very well so far. No problems with it so far.

Pros: easy to set up.

Cons: annoying static sound. tried multiple speakers/headphones and I just can't get rid of it!

Other Thoughts: very annoying

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

If none of the suggestions work, I recommend returning the unit for an exchange or another if you are still under the return policy with newegg.

Regards,
Jeffrey

Pros: The set up was easy.

Cons: constant static noise coming from the audio jack.

Other Thoughts: the sound is very annoying

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear that you are getting some static feedback.

What type of audio settings you have connected. Please check your manual for directions on how to setup your speaker configurations.

Here is a link below to update your drivers and bios. Just select which O/S you are using.

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO_R20/#support_Download_30

If you have any questions or comments you can email me again at cl-jeffrey@asus.com which I reside in the U.S

ASUS strives to meet and exceeds our customer expectations within our warranty policy.

Regards,

Jeffrey

Pros: The bios is very intuitive, everything is user friendly yet everything is adjustable. O.C.ing works great on this board, even the automatic oc feature's put up a nice stable overclock. I really appreciate that you can use a mouse in bios.

Cons: none so far

Pros: I have two of these boards and will be getting another one soon (more on that in the cons). I paired it with an FX-8150, Asus GeForce 660, 32G Corsair memory and installed CentOS 6.3. There were no UEFI problems running Linux, and could update the motherboard with just a USB stick. All components were detected with the stock Linux installation including sound, USB, NIC and thermal sensor.

Cons: So I mentioned I have a third board coming. After having such great luck with the first board, I ordered a second. The second one was just as easy to install, but shortly afterward began to lock up randomly. Over the next two weeks I swapped memory, graphics, power and even CPU and then ordered a replacement MB. The motherboard turned out to be the culprit but after swapping, the new board has run flawlessly. This is the reason for taking off a star for an otherwise excellent board. This is the first Asus MB that has failed on me so I'll see how the replacement works and may bump it back to 5 stars.

Other Thoughts: Not really a downside, but I wished that consumer boards would support more than 32G of RAM. I run two or three virtual machines and it's nice to be able to spin them up with 8G or more.

Pros: Excellent performance! Great features!!

Cons: Seems to have a bug where the computer reboots when the monitor goes to sleep even though hybernation is turned off.