I would say that is the only place they are better.
for the X99 platform, I have great single and dual socket boards that support just about all the cpus (even ES) with great ram support and features in the form of Asus Z10PE-D16 and Asrock X99 Taichi.
I have a good dual socket X79 in Asus Z9PE-D16..... But I still haven't been able to find a do it all single socket X79 board yet... Chinese or not
When I mean do it all, it should have 8 ram slots with support of up to 128gb at least allowing for ECC non ECC. I am fine if they don't use LRdimm but udimm and rdimm should be supported.... It's like impossible to find 16gb ecc ddr3 udimm….
Also it should have S3 sleep support as well as support of oem cpu like 2696 v2.... As well as more than 2 pcie x16 slots...
The asus p9x79 seems to come closest but it's very disappointingly does not support rdimm….
Sad announcement after finally running additional test..... Lenovo S30 does NOT recognize 2696 v2.....does work with 16gb rdimm as per spec
BUT Lenovo D30 DOES work with 2696 v2.
So weird isn't it? Everything of course on the latest bios..... I don't know why lenovo didn't have the exact same cpu microcode for both s30 and d30.... both support 2697 v2 12 core cpus.... sad...;(
So far, i have not been able to find a single one socket 2011 v2 board that does everything: S3 sleep, 8 ram slots accepting 16gb rdimm, 2696 v2 oem cpu supports, and at least 3 pcie x16 slots. How hard is that? lol...
The only boards i got so far that does all the 4 are the asus z9pe-d16 and lenovo d30 dual socket boards.... anyone else wants to add anything?
in the x99 world, so much easier to find a perfect single socket board.... I have the asrock taichi x99 that does pretty much everything....