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Seems well made. Chip-set heat sinks are substantial, well layed out, and well attached. Sturdy back plate supporting the CPU socket which works great to secure after-market cooler w/o damaging the board.
Enough overclocking for me. BIOS was a breeze. Moved the BCLK from 133 to 167, turned off "auto-overclocking" and power-stepping stuff and changed nothing else (no voltages) for a 3.34GHz OC of a i7 920. Running sub-30s idle with an after-market air cooler. No reason to go any higher when this is so easy, so safe and already better than the $1K chip.
Minimal, simple drivers. There were not "super suites" of useless poorly made software like some motherboards come with.
Doesn't have any bells and whistles but bells crack and whistles are annoying. Just a solid board. Every ASUS board I've bought since 10 years ago worked first try and every try since except this one but I blame my cooler not ASUS.
Only 2 SATA ports facing outward from the face of the board. The other slots are in the plane of the board and it's a real pain to connect them without dismantling everything. Two was enough for me but I don't understand why they can't make these more accessible.
The sound output internal connector pins near the bottom of the board interfere with the last PCI slot. A thick card in that slot might interfere with that.
The "CHA_FAN2" connector won't power a fan with manual speed control. Maybe this is standard but you'd think it could still power it and then control the speed as a percentage of the manually setting or something.
That back-plate might end up causing shorts because combined with an after-market cooling bracket standard stand-offs might not be sufficient to give the board separation from the case.
When I first installed it on standard stand-offs the fans would spin up for a moment and then nothing all while the LEDs on the board were lit up fine. Suspecting a short I got ahold of some extra tall plastic stand-offs and once I got it sitting on those it POSTed first try and hasn't had problems since.
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I want my money back
Don't know yet. Need to try and get a refund. Go with MSI instead.
It seemed like a good board at first, but then i started having app failures. Then on a boot the CPU temp. went up to almost 80 degrees. No Oc'ing. Everything at default in the bios. Looked at some of the voltages and the voltages on the rail for 5 volts was at 6.14 volts, 12 volts was at like 14.3 volts. Re-booted and everything went back to normal. Should have bought an MSI. Trouble is I probably can't get my money back.
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