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Rating: 80%
Review Title: Careful with 45nm CPUs

Verdict: You may be sent one with an out of date BIOS!

The one I bought, along with a shiny E8400 for my new build, wouldnt POST. I had to beg an old LGA775 CPU off a friend and flash the BIOS - only then did my E8400 kick it in to life... Im lucky I had access to that CPU otherwise I would have RMAd the mobo only to be told it was working fine. Sorry to put a downer on things, theres no doubt this is a great mobo but given its the elite CPC mobo and new builders are likely to combine it with a 45nm I thought it was worth mentioning to save them the extremely depressing first power up experience I had...

Rating: 86%
Review Title: One flaw!

Verdict: It does what it says on the box, it is an incredibly stable board which can be loaded right up with all the goodies enthusiasts \"need.\"

I totally agree with the review, I have run this particular motherboard for several months now and am completely happy with it. My only niggle is that I have installed an 8800GT in the primary PCI Express slot and I cannot use the SATA 0 port as it is not obscured by the end of the graphics card.

• Media PC components - 22nd August 2008
• PSUs - 14th July 2008
• Multi-GPU graphics - 20th June 2008
• CPU water cooling - 17th June 2008
• Hard disks - 20th March 2008
• Audio hardware - 29th February 2008
• Graphics cards - 24th January 2008

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