ASUS P9X79 LE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Purchased this motherboard to support a Core i7-4930K, the flexibility provided by 8 lanes for memory are nice and will support up to 128GB. Also, the addition of USB 3.0 is essential, and it is nice to see P/S2 connections available (while rarely used at this point). After using the board for about a year and a half, the machine has been completely stable and the onboard audio produces pretty good sound.The blue color scheme looks very nice and is refreshing in a sea of red components seen from not only ASUS but a number of other major manufacturers.Final note on the BIOS itself, the mouse enabled interface is responsive and much easier to use than a traditional keyboard only approach and the options for overclocking and tuning are easy to find and control. Beyond allowing for overclocking relatively easily, the BIOS also has some more general tuning options geared towards energy efficiency, performance, and balanced settings.Great board for the price. Tough to find the same feature set in the same price bracket from other manufacturers.

Pros:Supports LGA 2011 CPUsSupport for 8 DIMMs and 64GB of RAMTons of ports and expansionCons:Only 2 SATA 3 connectorsOnly 2 USB 3.0 portsI love this motherboard. It comes with an auto overclocking feature that works very well. It will do small OCs until it crashes, then it will revert to the last good OC. If you plan on using a back up power supply, you will need a very beefy setup. This mobo can support 3 GPUs at 16x/16x/8x. Get a high quality and powerful PSU.

My old motherboard (ASRock) was giving me some errors so I replaced it with this board. After about a month this board started acting up as well and eventually would not POST. I ordered a replacement board and had the same problem so I took the entire lot to the computer repair shop. They sent the CPU back to Intel, who diagnosed it as faulty and sent a replacement. Repair shop tested the new cpu with all known good components except motherboard and the system failed to POST. I brought everything home and tried the original original ASUS MB again with the same results. So- did the CPU fail and kill the MB or did the MB fail and kill the CPU? Odd that two boards don't work- maybe the CPU killed both boards? If so, then I would have to knock the MB for lacking whatever protection would have kept if from being killed by the CPU.On the up side, I like the looks of the board and installation was much easier than with the ASRock, especially getting the large video card and large CPU cooler in without them in physical contact.I have requested a replacement for the second board and will update this review once things are worked out.Interesting note- this board is not listed on the ASUS web page without doing a search.5 Stars for Amazon customer service and the service I received from Computer Ally in Ann Arbor, MI.

I like this motherboard a lot because it's among the cheapest you can find in what is an expensive segment (the LGA 2011 socket is meant for the Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E line of Intel CPUs). It's great if you don't intend to deck out your computer with multiple hard drives, graphics cards, etc. The system I was building had one hard drive (a solid state drive), one internal drive (a blue ray/dvd player), front-chassis USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 slots, one graphics card, one internal wireless adapter, two CPU fans, and three chassis fans. I sacrificed nothing in terms of plugging into the best ports that exist for each respective device. This means 6gbs SATA ports for the sold state drive and blue ray player, internal ports to plug in the front-chassis USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, PCIe x16 for the graphics card, at least PCIe x4 for the wireless adapter I had, two cpu fan slots, and four for chassis fans. I could of added a second graphics card too for SLI/Crossfire as there was a second PCIe x16 slot.A third SATA device would have forced me to go with a 3gbs slot. If doing SLI/Crossfire, a third PCIe device would at most be PCIe x8. So if this is what you intend, you should perhaps get a more expensive but slot rich motherboard.Also, this motherboard had good features, such as updating BIOS via a USB, a button to see if your RAM is compatible/working, and an easy to use BIOS that supports use of a mouse.

I was expecting for an expensive MB i ordered to work. But when i got it, it wouldn't go past the bios menu. This red cpu led would light up even though its installed correctly and recognized in the bios, which is apparently a common problem. I would hit a screen asking me if i wanted to repair windows or boot normally, both just end up sending me back to that screen one way or another. Extremely disappointed and angry that my computer wont be working any time soon due to asus. Good job fixing problems that you know are there. Still sitting here trying to get this piece of crap to boot into windows.