Some new features on the motherboards include RGB Lighting, expansion slots reinforcement and cooling management. RGB Lighting is becoming increasingly common on motherboards, and ASUS is avidly pursuing this trend on all their latest products. The motherboards will feature several colors to select from, and lighting effects to configure on the boards.

The s rog strix scar ii gl704gm Gaming boasts of the essentially monochrome theme that the company began using since recently and seems real splendid. This unique motherboard comes with a black and orange color scheme, in order to impart to the whole thing an attractive copper touch. The X99 also features RGB lightning so that users are able to transform colors over its I/O panel 

The Asus ROG Strip X99 is equipped with an eight 8 Phase Digit+ III VRM that is effectively powered by an 8 plus 4 Pin power connector. The board comes with no less than eight DDR4 DIMM slots that can run memory with extremely high speeds of a maximum 3333 MHz. The expansion slots have 4 PCI-e 3.0 x16, 2 PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots as also a single M.2 slot down at the bottom of the PCH heat sink. To add a touch of color, the PCI-e expansion slots boasts of small LEDs which can be configured through using RGB effects. As to storage options, there are 10 SATA III, one U.2 port, one SATA Express and 1 U.2 ports.