Quote Originally Posted by SocketMan
Looks like a "new" socket for AMD,reminds me of something else,what could that be
Yeah, and I thought they wern't going to change sockets, shucks!!
At least the heat-pipe cools the "PWN" section....
(the preciding was sarcasim, BTW.)

I do have a legit question for all you folks who've been following these boards closely though:

I'm probably going to be ordering one before I go to bed. It's very important to me that the board has Optical Audio Out, so that limits my choices to the Gigabyte or the Asus...

I had so many problems with the GBT DS5 that I had pretty much sworn off of Gigabyte products. That being said, the cooling solution on the GBT looks to be much better than the one on the Asus.

I also noticed that the GBT has an 8 pin AUX power plug, while the Asus only has a 4 pin Aux plug. I'm not a big fan of Multi-GPU settups, but I'm not sure how much the extra power effects CPU overclocks..

Do you guys think this could be a problem for the Asus board and OC'ing the CPU ?