Pros: Worked great out of box. OCed easily with fairly low voltage (1.235v @ 4.2 Ghz). Lots of threads for VMs and DB indexing!

Cons: N/A

Overall Review: Don't get this for gaming. It's a high end workstation chip. If you have cash to light on fire, go ahead. It works fine for gaming. Just don't whine about the price. A 6700K will do you just fine.

Pros: The board is a haystack of options and supports my multiple VMs well. It emptied my bank account, as expected. The function of the board, when running, is 100% what I expected and wanted.

Cons: I could have done without the SupremeFX Deck, the drivers for it are flaky, to say the least. For now, it's a super expensive paperweight. Even if it worked, I just wanted the board. Even if I wanted it... It's not even the right size! There's a considerable gap around every edge in the drive bay. The front of my case looks wonky with it in there. Since a lot of the product appeal here is purportedly aesthetics, that's a massive screw up. One egg off for the marketing stupidity of ASUS: Including this overly-expensive/useless eyesore. As several other reviewers already mentioned: Cold post times are ATROCIOUS. Cold posts take more than 1 minute(this morning was nearly 5 minutes). After a cold post, it's lightning quick, but I am testing lots of hardware and software configurations. This requires frequent full power downs. One more egg off for bad BIOS QA. The included fan controller managed to fry a Noctua NF-F12 3000... So there's that. You can submerge those and punch the creator of those Noctuas in the face while praising Donald Trump's intelligence and they won't skip a beat. leave it up to a $5 chip to finally offend a Noctua. It's a cheap component and I will replace it ASAP with a higher quality no-name fan controller. One more egg off for the cheap cheap cheap included accessories.

Overall Review: ASUS - Ways to improve and get some eggs back: 1. Drop the SupremeFX marketing gimmick and drop the price by $120. +1 egg - If you refuse to do this: Make it the right size (or even a bezel of some sort), fix your drivers, and include an owner's manual 2. Include higher quality accessories (how about a self contained + magnetically mounted SATA powered fan controller!). +1 egg 3. QA/Benchmark BIOS Better +1 egg - Come on, "slowest post at the highest price" doesn't sound like a good plan to retain customers. No, I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS -- Only if they drop the garbage bundle items/accessories and proportionally drop the price. Even then, only to a very narrow niche group. So I won't be recommending this to my mom or dead grandpa.

Pros: Great cooling and noise -- if you swap off the stock fans with something more robustly designed (Noctua NF-F14 3000s, in my case) I have an OC 6900K at 4.2 Ghz. It's idling at about 40 degrees C. Peak temps are hard pressed to pass 60 degrees c.

Cons: Garbage fans. I'd prefer that no fans were included and they drop the price ten bucks or so.

Overall Review: I would recommend this, the fan issue really isn't a biggie.

Pros: Great fans, one died within a couple hours of setup (Can't win them all)

Cons: One died (out of 6)

Overall Review: You can't always get what you want. The seller sent one out, no muss-no fuss to replace it. Noctua can't be perfect 100% of the time.