There’s also a bank of switches to enable and disable the four 16x PCI-E slots individually, so that you can troubleshoot faults without having to remove cards – next to each switch is an LED to show whether or not the slot is active. There is an OC Zone towards the top of the front edge of the board, which not only has an LN 2 mode jumper (to remedy the cold-boot bug at sub-zero temperatures), but also eight voltage readout points. The Thunderbolt card has gamer tech written all over it, and yet the board has a plethora of extreme overclocking, LN 2-friendly features. Whether or not the Thunderbolt card is useful brings us onto the thorny issue of what exactly the R3B is for – or rather, whom it is for. However, we’ve found Killer NICs don't improve online game performance much in these days of reliable high-speed broadband. Plus there’s the new Thunderbolt add-in card, which incorporates a Killer NIC processor and an Asus Xonar two-channel sound chip.
This might support all the fancy EAX 5.0 game audio effects, but it does so in software and there’s no Crystallizer either.īluetooth 3.0 is provided, and there are four network controllers, two audio processors and more overclocking tools than you could possibly use – the lack of tea-making facilities seems almost stingy. Click to enlargeFurthermore, the motherboard itself has 802.11n WiFi and Intel Gigabit LAN built in, plus an eight-channel Creative SupremeFX X-Fi 2 audio codec.
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