NickTolsma
06/24/12
Experience: 5 Months
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Plenty of ports, good layout, easy to connect all devices
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Great motherboard, one of the better ones I have bought in recent years, very pleased with its performance
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ComputerGuy12
02/24/12
Experience: 14 Days
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Great Board
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No Sata Wires
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I could be wrong, but I don't think this comes with any Sata wires.
The board is great, isn't a power hog, like these video cards and I use the bluetooth on it to connect my PS3 controller to my computer. If you do that, you can't use any other bluetooth devices.
I wish it had more ram slots, but 4 is ok. Also it was 8 sata connections which is great. I have lots of hard drives, (you gotta buy more wires and connectors)
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bucketbot
02/20/12
Experience: 8 Months
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Great BIOS, Stable for OC, Looks great
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Bit pricy
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I've had this board for 8 months now and havn't had a single problem with it. OCed my 2500k to 4.5ghz with an aftermarket air cooler on the first go and it has been rock solid every day since. To top it off, it looks very nice with a black pcb and blue hardware.
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Sigma520
02/12/12
Experience: 7 Days
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Excellent Build Quality
Many SATA ports
SLI/Crossfire
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absolutely none
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Used this motherboard to build a computer for my friend. I have to say, this is the best motherboard I have ever worked with. The board itself is sturdy and you can tell that ASUS used quality materials. Everything is spaced out quite nicely, and the board is really easy to work with, even in a mid tower. I highly recommend this to anyone going for LGA 1155!
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Tsun
01/28/12
Experience: 5 Months
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Working as intended
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None so far
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Haven't had a problem so far with my i5-2500k. Everyone recommended this motherboard for a good build, and everything works just fine
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JimmyJames
01/23/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Easy setup, lots of clearance for RAM and CPU fans
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None so far
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Install was flawless, overclocking was as simple as a click in the Windows-style OC-settings. Running in Windows 7, 64 bit Ultimate edition, I7 2600K, 16GB DDR3
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flag zulu
01/10/12
Experience: 29 Days
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Easy to Overclock, build quality, nice UEFI, price
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PCIexpress reduce to 8x per lane if in SLI
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Over this is one of the best board I have ever work with considering I got it for under $200. Comes with lots of accessories and really easy to overclock. I have a i5 2500K at 4.8Ghz with very little effort.
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Brandon_D
01/10/12
Experience: 85 Days
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Simply the best motherboard I have EVER owned! Functionality is incredible and outperforms some higher end mobos. ASUS has really outdone themselves.
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Like others have said... one of the best motherboard you will ever buy.
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Sdalmonte
12/22/11
Experience: 7 Days
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Very stable for overclocking
Looks great
UEFI BIOS
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"Double boot" - long POST times
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This board is wonderful for overclocking. I currently have my i5-2500k running at 4.5 GHz at just under 1.28 V - and required me to change only 2 settings in BIOS. Has lots of great features and the UEFI BIOS is a great step up from the old text-based BIOS.
The board goes into a "double boot" when you cold boot it but it seems from looking around the internet that this is a common occurance to stabilize the BCLK frequency, so can't complain too much about that.
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Eganwp
12/14/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
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- Most stable board I've owned in 20 years!
- Insane OC's (currently k 5.2GHz i2500k on water)
- SSD Caching!!!
- Nice heatsinks
- Functional layout
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- Long POST's
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I'm not kidding when I say this; this is literally the best and most stable mobo I've owned in 20 years of PC building/oc'ing. In the past I've had good luck with Asus, but found a few other brands like Asrock, EVGA to be more stable on insane overclocks with tons of voltage. EVGA has gone the way of cheap PCB's the last 2 years, and I've switch Video card & mobo brands after having a ton of failures.
I'm currently working in Windows 7 at a modest overclock of 5.2GHz on water for the i2500k and this board!!!! WOW. This is insane. The Vdroop on the board isn't too bad and I love the ability of this new chipset to compensate for it. I'm currently running very high on the vdroop correction. This board required NO pencil resistor mods for the first time in my life of owning Asus!!!! :D
The SSD caching feature on this board rocks. I picked up a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 for $50 during the sale. Amazing caching and windows loads fully in 7 seconds.
Bar none the best feature rich board I've ever owned. I have a feeling I wont be upgrading my PC for a LONG time.
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Stephen_Z
12/08/11
Experience: 13 Days
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nice layout
4 sata 6G and 4 USB 3.0 ports
stable overclocks
graphical BIOS
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single latch DIMM sockets
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I've come back to an ASUS mobo after trying an EVGA one. I've had no problems thus far and have come to appreciate the quality that ASUS puts into their products. My only complaint and it's a minor one is that the DIMM sockets have a single latch instead of one at either end. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who is willing to spend around $200.00
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Patrick_C
12/06/11
Experience: 1 Days
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-easy installation
-manual is pretty straight forward
-MSI boards we're easy and was afraid that this wont be but ASUS proved me wrong.
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-had trouble with the BIOS, saying I had an error with setting up the CPU fan when it is connected, I searched the net about it and it's a common bug.
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For its price and what it offers, it is a good buy. I am still getting familiar with the overclocking and by the looks of it, this motherboard will help me understand it a lot easier.
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Saleem_T
12/05/11
Experience: 2 Weeks
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nice and neat, easy to work with, all accessories included, no need for a graphic card if you are not a gamer.
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they should of include fire wire card
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very happy with this board, I am big fan of MSI but this board changed my mind.
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shang_l
11/23/11
Experience: 3 Months
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good item, easy installtion and working well
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this item is very good. I recommend the price is great and wrok very well. I used 3 month without problem. I like the look and the color. The installation was easy and fast. So i recommend to everybody to get this item. The item ship in great condition and fast shipping so you can enjoy the great item.
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this item is very good. I recommend the price is great and wrok very well. I used 3 month without problem.
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Michael_C
11/21/11
Experience: 1 Months
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awesome GUI for bios and overclocking
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great mobo for overclocking newbies since it practically overclocks for you. not much else I can say about it but I'm happy with what I paid for
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Daniel_C
11/11/11
Experience: 5 Days
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Well built.
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Everything was easy to instal, all the parts clearly labled. No issues what so ever, runs great.
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Gabriel_g
11/02/11
Experience: 2 Months
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Great oc, do not heat at all, complete and intuitive bios for overclockers and much more
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This motherboard is so great, I bought it to replace my older msi p67a-gd65 and this asus board own it.i recommend this board for everyone that seek performance and 3 way sli/crossfire capability.
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Mathew_M
11/01/11
Experience: 8 Days
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Lots of USB, eSATA port, Great board all around
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90degree SATA Cables, SATA ports right under Graphics card
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Great board, works well. Not a fan of the bios screen flashing 3 times before it boots the first HDD but at least it's quick.
The SATA port placements are awful, as the graphics card sits right over top of them, so unless you have tiny girl hands, you are going to have trouble plugging those in after your cards installed.
Also came with SATA cables with 90 degree angle ends, which makes it impossible to stack hard drive right on top of each other with the cables that come with it.
Overall a good board though, no issues except minor placement ones listed above.
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pikachu4u008
10/30/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
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- EASY overclocking
- great aesthetics!
- graphical BIOS
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This MoBo has been working excellent for me (so far). I doubt it will die on me in the near future. You can put the 2500k in its paces easy to 4.5 with minimal BIOS changes. Took me about 10 minutes to set it up. Stability tests are the ones that eat up most of your overclocking time. Most of the other good things are covered by preview reviewers. I merely wanted to stress the point that this board is an excellent choice!
This review was modfied by poster @ 10-30-11 01:54 PM
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Turtle-Bird
10/26/11
Experience: 7 Days
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nice design and good quality as always by asus
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needed to update drivers and bios to make sure everything (sata hdd, sata dvd drive) runs smoothly
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asus makes nice and good motherboards. all the computers i've built had asus motherboards.
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John R_J
10/25/11
Experience: 4 Days
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Good price, Z68, Asus, need I say more
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You kidding!?!
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I got this as the backbone of my Sandy build. It's a beautiful thing! First boot up without OS, bios blew me away! Slick, clean, feature rich. The included software suite is also awesome. If you're getting a mobo for Sandy and in this price range, you see what I picked, and proud of it.
Had nothing but good experiences with Asus boards.
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Jordan_S
10/24/11
Experience: 25 Days
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looks great
works awesomely
UEFI bios is an amazing change from keyboard-only
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googled "motherboards" and this was the top best-selling, and it definitely shows, currently have 2 sets of RAID-0 and a SSD boot drive, the features of the board are immense!!
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Vanquish
10/06/11
Experience: 15 Days
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Super easy to over clock
Looks Good
Lots of placed to plug things in
EAUI Bios
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Needs another 6GB/S USB3 Interal port for cases with USB 3.0 on the front of the case
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Overclocked my 2600K from 3.4 to 4.4Ghz in about 30 seconds with the push of a button. Super easy to do. No complains so far.
Only a minor complaint but: My corsair 600T has a front mount USB 3.0 port. From the port is a USB cable that is supposed to attach to the MOBO. However, this board comes with a USB 3.0 Board to attach to the back of the case (giving you two additinal ports). This wires to the internal 6GB/s connector... So in short, no USB 3.0 for the front of my case.
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Matthew_A
10/05/11
Experience: 3 Days
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Fast, Stable, Good Build.
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Many features, great purchase...stable board...like the colour as well. Well worth the price.
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Goofie Newfie
09/29/11
Experience: 30 Days
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Good solid Build Quality
Stable
Friendly Bios
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Once you install SLI/Xfire you disable esata and usb3
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This is a great board. Looks great. Easy to work with. Onboard resset/power buttons. The Onboard video works well as a second display or with Lucid Virtu. Good Asus quality. Rock Solid.
BUT, you might want to read the manual. This board will not let you install SLI or Xfire setups without disabling some features on the board like esata, usb3 etc. Their higher end boards do not have this issue.
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Somebody69
09/28/11
Experience: 2 Days
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Stable
Competitive feature set
Not MSI
Good BIOS
Intel LAN
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Slow boot sequence, but maybe that's normal on new boards
Included software is garbage, as usual. Also, driver DVDs in 2011? If you don't have an optical drive, plan how to get the network drivers onto the PC beforehand. I used a USB stick.
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Stable board, plenty of USB and SATA ports, decent layout. Accommodates a Corsair H100 with no clearance problems.
Easier install than my last Gigabyte board.
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Pierre-Luc_G
09/21/11
Experience: 4 Months
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lots of features for the price
The new bios is anwsome
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double booting
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Got this for my new gaming rig.
Was very to install.
you got so many programe and it is very easy to overclock.
1 button overclocking.
Recommanded
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HaleStorm
09/20/11
Experience: 2 Days
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For me:
Supports SLI, Crossfire, and Onboard
Looks good
Temps are in check
Overclocking is pretty easy, although I did not push it all the way.
Came with all the perks, especially a usb3.0 hub, which my sabertooth did NOT come with.
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Good looking board, cool, very versatile. I bought this to be a test best machine so the ability to handle SLI, XFire and onboard video is a big help.
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Wendy_J
09/18/11
Experience: 1 Months
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-Looks good
-TONS of features (some of them not too useful)
-Lots of connections.
-Great BIOS setup, easy to OC an unlocked processor.
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Clearance with some Vengeance RAM and a CM 212+ heatsink was a bit close (couple mm horizontally), but worked fine. Super easy to OC with. Lots of features, of which I am probably not taking full advantage of...
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Erik_E
09/13/11
Experience: 10 Days
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Best motherboard for enthusiasts
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Great motherboard. Packed with all kinds of useful features for gamers and overclockers alike.
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Christopher_J
09/09/11
Experience: 2 Weeks
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Attractive, well laid out,abundance of options (USB3, blue tooth, etc), Z68 chip-set, great bios.
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Booted without issue. Runs like a dream and has solid performance. I love using ASUS boards.
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viet khanh_v
09/06/11
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Easy to install, looks good, performs well
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Price
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Although this board is on the pricier side, you are definitely getting what you paid for, if you are debating between this or the P67 this is the mobo to buy
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Emile_G
09/06/11
Experience: 1 Weeks
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- Easy to work with
- Comes with 4 SATA cables (3 & 6 Gbits/s)
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It is an awesome product when paired with a i5 2500k!
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Jason_G
09/05/11
Experience: 1 Weeks
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-Full of features
-Easy to OC
-Big heat sinks for cooling
-Easy to setup
-NEW UEFI Bios is nice
-Lots of USB
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This board was extremely easy to setup, plug the cpu and ram in, install the cooler and give it power. Posted first try with no issues at all. Was able to OC i7 2600k to 4.4 GHz with ease.
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pandalone
09/01/11
Experience: 14 Days
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easy bios with access to advanced settings
silent
stable
connectivity
excellent fan controller
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accessories are limited
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It is extremely fast and easy to setup.
Easy to change pc behaviour from performance to power save in bios
Fan control is very good and keeps the pc super quiet
lack of chipset fan makes for ultraquiet operations
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Martin_L
09/01/11
Experience: 1 Months
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nice look, long video card fit on this, connectors are well placed, so many BIOS options and programs comes with this motherboard
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Got this with my i2600k. Fit perfect with the Corsair H70. You can have high profil RAM with that configuration with no problem.
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Emmanuel_G
08/25/11
Experience: 3 Days
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-Lots of feature
-Well built
-No push screws
-Well cooled
-Good oc-er
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-No debug LED
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Awesome board. Nothing to complain about for now. Just missing a debug led which can really cut time when facing crashes. I had a problem with my hardrive and yes there is a LED telling me there is a problem but I have to figure out what it is. Turns out I didn't use my marvel 6gb ports and they were enabled.
Really good board overall. Too many features for me.
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MasterMic
08/19/11
Experience: 17 Days
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Price
Aesthetics
Features
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Nada
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Great board: inexpensive (relatively), feature rich and visually pleasing. I have had success with Asus many times and this is no exception. Overall a great board. The Bluetooth is a nice touch (Wii emulation FTW!).
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Mirza_D
08/16/11
Experience: 1 Weeks
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-tons of features
-great and easy overclocking
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-no accessible PCI slot once you go SLI with bigger video cards
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Great motherboard with plenty of features and overclocking ability.
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Exile550
08/15/11
Experience: 2 Weeks
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-Lots of functionality.
-Great for Overclocking.
-Quality board.
-Good warranty.
-Easy to configure.
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I always buy Asus Motherboards. Never had any trouble with them. This one is particularly stylish and affordable for what you get. Lots of functionality. It was also very easy to configure.
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Gregory_S
08/12/11
Experience: 5 Days
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Lots of video options
bluetooth
i7 compatible
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only 4 DIMM slots
needs more PCI
mouse interface in bios not 100%
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this was truely a bang for buck this motherboard has all options for new and advanced users to get into tweaking. it was quick and simple to install i've thrown 16GB of ram in with the i7 2600k unlocked and its been smooth sailing i just wish i could put more ram in this puppy but thats cause i always want more.
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Steve_C
08/05/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
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Lots of features, overclocking couldn't be any easier
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Most users probably won't make use of all the new features.
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My videocard was DOA, luckily the board had integrated GPU so i could still use my pc while I was waiting for RMA. Besides during that period, I don't use Lucid Virtu or SSD caching. I might one day when the two technologies are perfected or my pc usage changes. I mostly game atm.
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Bear Pusher
08/05/11
Experience: 3 Days
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Solid overclocker
Good positioning of sata ports
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Got this along with a 2600k and overclocking has been almost too easy. I liked the layout allowing to sli later and still keep my sound card. The positioning of the sata ports was a big improvement over my old mobo where the gpu would block several ports. Construction seems excellent, should last me a long time.
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Gerry_T
07/27/11
Experience: 3 Days
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Dropped it in replacing a 775 e8400 ssd raid. with no win7 reinstall.
It simple overclock for me to 4.3ghz no problems so stable.
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None really totally happy. Still a 200 dollar mobo
Remeber to put ram in A2 and B2 if you have 2 dimms
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Very Easy upgrade coming from intel 775mobo.
Liked how well it fit in my case. gigabyte 6970 fit nicely.
New graphic bios is cool took couple minutes to figure it out. Changed achi to raid to get my raid 0 array to recognize.
Easyily oc the i2500k to 4.3ghz
Recognized 1600mhz ram right away. And oc it.
Look forward to using the lucid chip soon.
I can highly recomend this ASUS mobo best I've had and Ive had alot.
Now usb 3.0 flashes need to get cheaper.
This review was modfied by poster @ 07-27-11 11:46 PM
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Justin_A
07/25/11
Experience: 25 Days
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Overclocking becomes a breeze, even for first time users.
EPU and TPU for those who don't wish to venture into manual OCing, whilst saving some power.
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If only the USB 3.0 cable was a 3.5" bay...
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This is my first motherboard as for my first build. I honestly didn't know how to do anything, I even fried a cable by accident but luckily warranty saved me from losing a few hundred bucks. Anyways, this motherboard was well worth the cash, and allows anyone to get the best of their components.
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David_G
07/23/11
Experience: 4 Days
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- Good set of on board features
- Supports DUAL monitors via on-board Video (1 DVI 1 VGA)
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- SATA connectors face off to the right of the board and made installation and connecting within my case difficult due to clearance issues
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Really nice board, almost everything but the SATA connectors are well positioned.
The Diagnostic LEDs make a lot of sense and I like that it has a built in power and reset button that can be pushed with your fingers easily.
Building a budget system I was surprised to find that the on board video could support dual monitor and made use of it with my old monitor as a secondary.
Unless you are control freak I would suggest just downloading the Intel NIC driver from the ASUS website to kick start your install, and leave ALL of the ASUS bundled tools out, you can get all of the chip-set, sound and video drivers from the ASUS website separately to keep your system fee of the other junk.
The BIOS has a NIC GUI, it is very easy to navigate and find options.
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WhatDayisitToday
07/22/11
Experience: 2 Days
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-Working out of box. Thats always a good sign, right?
-ASUS OC option works well for finding OC starting points
-Lots of space on the MOBO for expansions
-Pretty awesome looking
-RAID worked out of box as well even without drivers needing to be installed.
-Complete computer started up without any hassles at all. Even loaded drivers that worked with the WIFI card I installed, so I could set up directly on the computer, which saves a lot of time
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-A bit pricey
-No RAID for SATA6Gbps or SATA Gen 3, whichever you want to call it. Only RAID on 3.0, which kind of dissapointed me. But im not sure how many MOBO's support that.
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Picked this up with a i7 2600k, Corsair Vengeance RAM, Corsair H80, and EVGA GTX 570. Worked right away. Easiest setup for a computer I've done in a long time.
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Justin_R
07/14/11
Experience: 60 Days
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Great performance
Solid, no crashing
Built in video output
8 sata ports (would have still liked more though)
USB 3.0
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Bought this for my new build. I wanted something with on board video so I didn't need to buy a graphics card and create more heat in my room. So far it's worked great and I've had no crashes yet. I would have liked more sata ports. You'd think 8 would be enough, but when you run a cable for a front esata port and the optical drive it only leaves room for 6 drives so 2-4 more ports would have been nice. Not much else to say, it's a nice looking board that does what it's supposed to do.
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Evan_S
07/04/11
Experience: 1 Months
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Great overclocking
Looks great
Compatible with older hardware
Good amount of accessories
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AI Suite on disk did not work for me without downloading a fix on the internet
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Have this motherboard with an i5 2500k, Antec 620, and G.skill Ripjaws X 1600mhz CL9 8GB.
The set up is incredible and would recommend. Especially at the $386 combo NCIX had earlier! Holy savings!
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Surtur
07/02/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
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great package deal with 2600k,
on board video,
easy, bios looks and functions well
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nothing at this point
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Got this with the 2600K , G.SKILL Ripjaws X F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM 8GB, after plugging everything in pushed the power button and nothing but a perfect first boot. was very happy that it worked first try. loaded windows 7 and everything seems to run fine.
on board video is a great addition since i am waiting on my video card still but for now i can get the rest of the pc going.
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