The EVGA X299 Micro Motherboard Review: A Smaller Take on X299
by Joe Shields on February 9, 2018 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- U.2
- X299
- Skylake-X
- Kaby Lake-X
Gaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity is a Real Time Strategy game developed by Oxide Games and Stardock Entertainment. The original AoTS was released back in March of 2016 while the standalone expansion pack, Escalation, was released in November of 2016 adding more structures, maps, and units. We use this specific benchmark as it relies on both a good GPU as well as on the CPU in order to get the most frames per second. This balance is able to better display any system differences in gaming as opposed to a more GPU heavy title where the CPU and system don't matter quite as much. We use the default "Crazy" in-game settings using the DX11 rendering path in both 1080p and 4K UHD resolutions. The benchmark is run four times and the results averaged then plugged into the graph.
Our AOTSe testing continues to be a tight-knit dataset with almost 2 frames per second separating things in the more CPU heavy 1080p and less than 1 frame per second in 4K. The Micro's performance was right on par with the rest of the data sets able to pull 43.1 frames per second in 1080p and 35.3 in 4K UHD.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
The ROTR results are also showing very close results with the few datasets we have. In this case, the Micro reached 93.2 FPS in 1080p while the 4K UHD testing yielded 40 FPS.
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shodanshok - Saturday, February 10, 2018 - link
It really strikes me as a pricey (~300$) board meant for high-end desktop with boot/post problem can be defined as a "solid choice". Such fragility was not expected, nor accepted, even on the old days of <150$ Socket7 boards and chipsets from Aladdin and VIA. Now, we accept it from a 300$ HEDT board...damianrobertjones - Saturday, February 10, 2018 - link
"The curious issue I had with the beep codes and getting the system to boot was a somewhat frustrating experience.""In the end, EVGA has given users a solid choice for a small form factor motherboard."
No they have not. The two sentences cancel each other out and this board should NOT be recommended until EVGA resolves all issues. Just like Gigabyte never fixed the boot/ram issues on my last motherboard.
Joe Shields - Monday, February 12, 2018 - link
We worked with EVGA on this and they were not able to reproduce the symptoms I was seeing. Assuming this isn't a problem for others, which we cannot assume - I also didn't see this issue on their forums when I looked back in December, it is a solid choice.Chann3l - Thursday, March 1, 2018 - link
From my experience they have some pretty big quality control issues which is a shame because when I did have this board working, the bios was excellent. Sacrificing an m.2 slot for u.2 when there are only two u.2 drives available and both from Intel, was a poor decision. The "DIY" Wifi is just lazy, same with the IO cover not being installed. This could be a great board I'm sure, but in it's current state it really isn't.Jad77 - Saturday, February 10, 2018 - link
With the latest generation of boards, it seems EVGA has finally got their shit together. In the past, there was always something off about their designs; like they were made for a niche market, of which I was not a part.damianrobertjones - Sunday, February 11, 2018 - link
Eh?"The curious issue I had with the beep codes and getting the system to boot was a somewhat frustrating experience."
GTVic - Saturday, February 10, 2018 - link
What about motherboards for the C422 chipset? Not that this is relevent here but it is hard to find any info. Lenovo is shipping full systems with this chipset soon. I think it would be a nice option for a new handbuilt system.Ytterbium - Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - link
The only C422 that I have seen is SuperMicro, it's sad that you are now tied to Xeons only with this chipset, for the last generations I have mixed it up with Xeons and i7's, never with ECC ram though.Drazick - Saturday, February 10, 2018 - link
I really prefer having only 4 DIMM slots than 8 in x299.It allows better performance (Signal Integrity wise).
Wish more MB would chose this.