Quote Originally Posted by Necetra View Post
That's a sexy NB heatsink change.
I'm confused about the X-Fi thing though. Specs say it's an AD2000B and not a Creative X-Fi based chip? Am I missing something here?
It's using a software version of X-Fi. The audio chip is indeed from Analog Devices AD2000B, but the software on top of it is from Creative Labs, providing EAX 4.0, Crystalizer and CMSS-3D functionality. All these features are run on CPU and not X-Fi chip. We can directly compare this to X-F Xtreme Audio soundcard. It's the same thing really. It's not great but in general far better than most of integrated soundcards. You can also use default BlackHawk panel that has few nice effects to boost sound clarity or bass in a similar way as Crystalizer.

Quote Originally Posted by Mjhieu View Post
This board is making for HTPC, it's so small to compare to big brother 2 extreme, and also cheaper alot.
Small and cheaper, but from what i hear no less powerful than it's bigger sister when it comes to overclocking.