In a nut shell, the ASUS M5A99X EVO is a motherboard worthy of your thought if you are considering a mid to high range AMD system. From our testing, the motherboard can handle just about whatever you throw at it and still come out with its head held high. It even gave the Crosshair V Formula a good run for its money in a number of the benchmarks which we ran.

The BIOS is just like any other UEFI which ASUS have produced for their other products on both their AMD and Intel product lines. It is easy to navigate and it is very smooth to chop and change through menus as well. From a personal stand point, I find the BIOS to be amongst the best, if not the best that I have used so far.

The M5A99X EVO is a monster overclocker when you pair it with the AMD Bulldozer FX-8120, it certainly has set the benchmark very high for other motherboards to try and best it. In terms of overclocking, we managed to get a 335MHz bus speed out of our CPU sample which is most likely more or less as high as it will go with our voltage and cooling limitations. Other sources show that anywhere between 280MHz and 300MHz is a very reasonable overclock to achieve, and therefore, being able to take 335MHz is a point worth talking about. As with any overclocking, your results may vary from what we have achieved and this is not necessarily an overclock which you will be able to run 24/7, but the motherboard is capable to perform our tests which is what we set out to achieve.

The board is currently priced at roughly the £90 mark. Considering how it performs and what features are available, it is fair to say that the M5A99X EVO performs brilliantly. You are backed with a three year warranty too for peace of mind.



This motherboard is worthy of no less than a golden award from us at Vortez. It ticks all of the right boxes in every catagory.