New X99 based motherboards, VELOX II

They already have the Deluxe II and the Rampage V Extreme Edition 10 in the configurator. More will probably come over time. Typically they have used Gigabytes boards for lower-end/entry-level X99 and Asus boards for the high-end.

The Velox just had a minor refresh with the side panel becoming a large window. DS will show off concepts and new products at CES in January and it can be many months before they are actually sold.

i haven't read a review yet mentioning a problem with it.  the board comes with an m.2 hyper kit for use in pcie 3.0 slots, so just use it in one of the many x16 slots.  with a 40-lane cpu all slots get Gen3 speed.

the downgrade is only for a 28-lane cpu (i.e. 5820K).  on a 40-lane cpu you can use all 5 expansion slots from what i've read about the board.  

Blake is right about the M.2 downgrading, even with a 40-lane processor:

Originally posted by http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99-DELUXE-II/specifications/ *1:PCIe x16_3 shares bandwidth with M.2 and U.2_2. It runs at x16 mode by default. PCIe X16_5 shares bandwidth with U.2_1. It runs at x4 mode by default with U.2_1 enabled.

The RVEd10 has a slightly different PCI-e configuration than the RVE, but it still looks good. The RVE had it where a 40-lane would split the last slots x8 bandwidth with the M.2 and a 28-lane would simply disable the last slot and permanently enable the M.2. The RVEd10 just states that the U.2 and M.2 share bandwidth with the last slot. The interesting bit is how for the 4-way GPU set-up there is options for both x16/x8/x8/x8 and x8/x8/x8/x8. This makes me want to believe that there is a fairly complicated PCI-e switch set-up, but I'm not exactly sure how it is. The RVE did have a somewhat complicated setup for 3-way where the second x16 slot would share bandwidth with the third x16 slot with a 40-lane processor, but a 28-lane processor would have the second x16 slot share bandwidth with the first slot.

Edit: It looks like the RVEd10 does the same for 3-way as the RVE did. But still not clear on how exactly the M.2 and U.2 share bandwidth. But you can run x16/x16 and have the M.2 operation all at once.

Edited by  - 11 Jun 2016 at 12:53am

I agree - looks like the ROG Rampage V Edition 10 is designed better in terms of PCIe bandwidth sharing.
ASUS specs say "The PCIEx8_4 slot (gen 2.0) shares bandwidth with M.2 and U.2." So this means SLI x2 can run dedicated x16/x16 (with a 40 lane CPU). Better than the Deluxe II setup (but more expensive mobo). Not sure about SLI x3... but, at least for GTX 1070/1080, there is no point to SLI above SLI x2 as Nvidia officially said not supported (for gaming).

Do you guys know if Digital Storm's custom Hydrolux Control Software can control all the LED's on these new bling'ed out RGB motherboards (like the RVEd10), RGB RAM, EK water blocks etc.