ASUS M5A99X Evo Motherboard with UEFI BIOS - Unboxing & Look at
135Unboxing and Look at ASUS M5A99X Evo AM3+ Motherboard with UEFI BIOS which I purchased from Aria for £122.
UEFI BIOS provides a fancy GUI interface with mouse control, and also support for 3Tb+ Hard Drives.
It comes with latest AMD 990X and SB950 Chipsets
The board works very well in Ubuntu 11.04 with Linux Kernel 2.6.38, and even better in Ubuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.
It can boot off USB Boot Disks created in UNetBootIn.
Things not working correctly:
Two USB devices of mine (SD card reader and one basic Flash drive)
Temperature sensors are way off in Ubuntu (likely a driver issue)
Motherboard Specifications:
CPU: AMD AM3+ and older AM2 & AM3 Athlon, Phenom II
Memory: 4x DDR3 upto 32Gb
Multi GPU: Both NVIDIA SLI and AMD ATI CrossFireX
Expansion Slots:
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 speed)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
1 x PCI
USB:
4x USB 3.0 (2 back panel, 2 header)
14x USB 2.0 (8 back panel, 6 header)
Back Panel I/O Ports:
8x USB 2.0
2x USB 3.0
1x IEEE 1394a (Firewire)
2x eSATA
1x PS/2 (keyboard / mouse combo)
1x LAN (RJ45 port)
1x Optical S/PDIF out
6x Analogue Audio jacks
Internal I/O Ports:
1x USB 3.0 supports 2 USB 3.0 ports
3x USB 2.0 supports 6 USB 2.0 ports
1x COM (serial port)
6x SATA 6Gb/s
2x SATA 3Gb/s
1x IEEE 1394a
2x CPU Fan (4 pin)
3x Fan connectors (3 pin)
1x S/PDIF out header
1x Front panel audio header