Pros: Best RGB of any boards including the Godlike Asus AI suit will find the max overclock for your chip if you are a novice and don't want to oc yourself , it works well and its stable Connections are great for everything from everything to m.2 , intel 750 and thunderbolt The dac and amp that come with it is pretty good.

Cons: Boot up times. They are bad and this is across all of the updated newer asus x99 boartds. The deluxe 2 has the same problems and no matter what you change in bios its still slow. The dac and amp , you need a drive bay and it runs hot. Tho it sounds great and can power all my headphones sonic studio for gaming just sounds bad. Its not what i would use for gaming and prefer Dh or creatives sound processing. Old pci-e wiring. 8x16x8? But i know why they did this. For the m.2 and u2 ports. Game first causes blue screens thus not usable at least for my system

Overall Review: Is it worth 600 bucks? Myself i do not think so the problem is some features witrh software do not work correctly. The boot up times are to slow for a 600 motherboard and the Dac and Amp tho crazy good the software is not and i feel the sound is what drives up the board to this price much like the godlike. Still The board is an engineering marvel much like all asus motherboards.