@Raja -
Yeah, I'm starting to seriously need more cores, lol, so eventually upgrading a couple machines from Intel X99 to Intel X299 (or to AMD X399). Both primarily used for work but the one at home also used for gaming, and I prefer to keep matching hardwares on both (which sometimes makes life simpler in many little ways, lol). I'm always tempted to grab the latest ASUS/ROG offerings but I'm deliberately waiting out (another season or two?) until the mobos and firmwares mature. X299/X399 is not an upgrade to me (no matter how much more cores/threads, lanes, GHz, GB, etc) until it's proven it can run as stable as my existing systems, and it's expensive enough (times two) that I'd expect about 2-3 years service life (without the first year being full of debug).
LiveDash is a gimmick, but it's one I find appealing. Hardware-monitor display built onto the hardware itself, brilliant! It'd be nice to have one built onto every big chip, heatsink, cooler, pump, fan, and power block, but since we don't live in Star Trek I'd happily accept just one such display on the mobo itself (well, maybe also one on the top of each GPU card, lol).
The X299-DELUXE page advertises LiveDash in the "Make it your own" section, alongside RGB and AURA features, a cosmetic customization feature. Which is exactly what LiveDash is. I'm more interested in the functional potential, using LiveDash to actually indicate technical information I'd consider useful. So I'm curious about its specific capabilities and how to use them. At a glance, it's just some sort of 128x32 I2C monochrome OLED part, but can it be user-configured, can it be controlled through software, will it be lumped into the AURA SDK, etc?
A great first gen appearance, I think, even though it seems strange to me that it's on a PRIME board instead of on a ROG/EXTREME board, but then we all know a few more ROG X299 mobos are in the pipeline and we haven't seen their final build specs yet. And gamers will always demand bigger and bling-blingier things, lol, at ever-diminishing prices, so I can understand ASUS trying to quietly slip LiveDash under the ROG radar while so many other big ROG projects are already underway.
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