Asus motherboard P9-X79 PRO Intel X79 LGA2011 DDR3 ATX

Overview

A fully-loaded and easily overclockable motherboard for Sandy Bridge Extreme processors.

The P9X79 Pro is the first motherboard we've seen with Intel's X79 Express chipset and LGA2011 socket, which you'll need to use Intel's new Sandy Bridge Extreme chips.

As you'd expect for an enthusiast board for an enthusiast processor, the P9X79 Pro is both hugely expensive and fully loaded. It has four PCI Express x16 slots and supports both 3-way SLI and Quad-GPU CrossFire X, has four SATA3, four SATA2 and two eSATA ports, as well as four USB3 and six USB2 ports on the rear panel and one USB3 and three USB2 headers for further ports. There are also a huge eight memory slots for up to 64GB of DDR3 memory; Sandy Bridge E processors support quad-channel RAM, and the slots are colour-coded accordingly.