I didn't have any issues with thermal throttling even with the apparently buggy UEFI 1.3. I really don't mind a "barebones" mainboard, but I do feel the manufacturer should at least supply accessories that allow you to use all the features of the board... nomatter how antiqaited said feature might be. The older style SLI bridge isn't really a issue IMO either, once its on its not like you are poking and prodding it every day For now I deffinately think the safest most reliable way to update the UEFI with the Extreme6 is through pure DOS until the UEFI has matured a bit. I'm not ruling out the UEFI upgrade to 1.3 could of gone a bit wonky because I couldn't do a pure DOS flash as theres no DOS file for 1.3.