Critical to the operation of a high-end system is its motherboard. The ASUS Prime X299-Deluxe in a high-end part using Intel's new LGA 2066 socket. Features worthy of note include 802.11ad (WiGig) WiFi, an onboard OLED display, and a smart method for cooling M.2 SSDs.

Strong power delivery components with a supplementary 4-pin power connector; Excellent fan control system with plenty of headers; Robust UEFI and OS software; LiveDash OLED display is a unique feature; Solid RGB LED lighting system; Strong WiFi solution; Thunderbolt 3 and U.2 support

MOSFET heatsink is poorly designed for handling Skylake-X CPUs; PCIe slot layout is inefficient; especially with the bundled Thunderbolt 3 card; OLED display positioning is questionable (blocked by a large air cooler)

This board is great and works amazingly with the Intel i9-7940x. This board is capable of serious overclocking but if you overclock it make sure you can cool it or you'll regret it.

Several reviews I went through before buying this board stated the VRM heats way up; I have found this to be entirely false unless you are jacking up the voltage during overclocking, then tbh this should be expected.

Haven't really found any weaknesses with this board; but one thing you need to keep in mind is the screws for the heatsink of the M.2 are very tiny so make sure you have a screw driver that is small enough or you will strip them

I've closely scrutinized many mother boards during 2017. This one get my pick for best value considering premium features/design and performance.

is a sweet little motherboard not much to say about it but it does what it's supposed to do

The Asus Prime X299-Deluxe is a great well-rounded motherboard. Thanks to the Kaby Lake-X processor, overclocking was much better than we saw with Haswell-E and there seems to be plenty of headroom to go further. I was quite impressed by the 5-Way Optimization's overclocking ability.

So I mentioned it in my initial Intel coverage but I should probably bring it up again here. Most people are used to Intel's mainstream boards that are, even at the highest end, limited by low PCIe lanes and chipset features.