Pros: Great set of features, good aesthetics

Cons: Poor quality control, poor layout of PCI-e in relation to PCI slots, X-Fi card conflicts with mounting screw in addition to only working in the top most PCI-e X1 slot.

Overall Review: I'm on my second board now and this one is worse than the first. The first board came with an exploded CMOS battery no big deal i just replaced it. I then started experiencing strange issues with my OS install and ran SFC finding that I had about an 11mb error log of corrupt files its a wonder this thing even booted, everything is brand new in the system and I've even swapped out the power supply, hard drive and ram just to make sure none of these were the culprit. 3 out of the 4 ram slots are apparently defective the two red slots result in immediate corruption, and using one black slot and a red slot results in only 4gb of ram while using another black slot and red slot results in 8gb but corruption again.