ASUS Maximus II Formula - new P45 king?

[humeyboy]

ESATA works without issue on this Mobo.

[GFORCE100]

ESATA works without issue on this Mobo.

The only thing that really gets to me about this board is that the pull-ins don't work. I know from experience from the X38 that if you couldn't run a lower performance level (say 6 instead of 7) then you could still get the same performance result by enabling the pull-ins which do increase memory performance each and every time - guaranteed.

Everything else I can digest without getting overly irritated

If this was a cheap board I would say "oh well" but when you pay top dollar you expect an upper class product with attention to detail.

Bottom line, nice board, average BIOS and I bet you it's the better BIOS in the Gigabyte UDP3 that sets the difference in overclocking. It's like designing a wonderful car to drive but without the right engine, perfect handling yet underpowered.

The difference between cars and motherboards is that if say Honda put the same engine from their Accord model (2.0/2.4 VTEC 150-200BHP) in their Legend model, it would most surely get outspoken by car editors the world over so much so that Honda would have to fix it instantly. In fact all they would have to do is state the same sentence over and over (i.e. the naturally aspirated 2.0/2.4 Honda VTEC engine is very keen on high revs thus develops at best average pull (torque) at low revs making it a somewhat dull drive for such a heavy car, as is the Legend). Do you see anyone wiping the floor in similar light with Asus's lack of pull-ins? Nah, I think not.