I was fortunate (blessed)to receive this motherboard and box of cookies from Lardy (aka) Shamino of Asus motherboards. I can't do much with it right now because Intel won't be releasing processors for this board until early next year. The board is packed with features which will take me the rest of my life to figure out.
Here are just of few of many -
Due to Sandy Bridge processors having only 1 x16 pcie lane, most boards use a bridge such as an NF200 to give it 3 VGA SLI/CF support. In almost all cases, in single/dual/triple card configs, all the lanes pass through the NF200 from the CPU, and you get latency in performance.
In M4E's case, in Single card config, the x16 gets directly fed from the CPU and the NF200 is powered off. Better performance than going through the NF200.
In Dual VGA config, the lanes still come directly from the CPU , getting split up into x8 x8 native which is still faster than x16 x16 via a Bridge AKA NF200.
In triple config, the first card gets an x8 native and second and third card gets x16 each via the NF200. So in all 3 cases it is designed for best performance within the 'P' limitations of the platform.
Some other cool features include BIOS flashing without any processors or ram or VGAs, CPU socket temperature monitoring, Base Clock Skewing, PCI Express turning On/Off, ROG Connect PLUS together with GPU Tweakit (Like second iteration of remote controlled OC of MB + VGAs)
I can't wait to get an Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz when they hit the market.
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Originally Posted by runmc
, its very over priced
Saaya yupp, I agree
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