June 15 2011 review by hardwaresecrets

The CPU voltage regulator circuit of this mainboard has eight phases for the CPU main voltage, VDD or Vcore, and two for the CPU VDDNB voltage (integrated memory controller, HyperTransport bus controller, and L3 memory cache). Therefore, it is an "8+2" configuration.

This mobo has four PCI Express x16 slots, two FireWire ports, two USB3 ports, six SATA3 ports, POST diagnostics display, decent audio quality with coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs, a very high-end voltage regulator circuit, and a terrific set of overclocking options. In addition, the OC Genie button allows you to overclock your system without the need of manually changing any complicated settings.

Overclocking:

The reviewers did not perform any overclocking.

Compared To:

This mainboard was not compared to another board.

Benchmarks:

No benchmarks were tested.