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I was very happy that after several months trying to get the money to buy the ultimate motherboard I decide to get this one, but for my surprise this mobo came with troubles, the first days I didnt push it because I was checking the overall performance and installing my application, after all was done I started to play some games and bang, system shutdown, I though that the problem was with something I connected so I disassembly everything and tried again, but then the nightmare started, CPU INIT all the way in the back LCD, and no way to get rid of it, then I start looking some info over the internet and there were a lot of people with the same problem, and with no real solution for this (than to RMA the item back to the seller) I not telling that this is not a good choice but I will think twice if I will buy a mobo from asus, this one disappoint me

the board was doa, I have sent it back to ASUS 3 times, just to receive it back in the same or worse condition. It was returned to me again a forth time....guess what? It still won't boot......I don"t understand what happened to ASUS but not only has the quality of their product become non-existent....and as far as customer service...what a joke....I have made every possible effort to discuss the problem but no one wants to hear it...and if I actually got to speak to someone...they have no answers....they said someone would call back...still waiting for that....maybe they will return my call sometime within the next century!!!!!

Asus has really outdone themselves with this board. You can overclock the heck out of your board and if you go too far just reset it and nothing's broken :)
It also has AWESOME sound (and it's onboard!!) and you can use two Nvidia cards in SLI without the glitches some boards give.
The only thing that I'd change is the copper fins on the heatsink. I bent one clipping the processor fan on, but then again I've got fingers like sausages. Fat and thick. Maybe it's just me.

mobo is very good buss touches to the 412 max unstable fbs 385 stable
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