ASUS P9X79 LE DDR3 2400 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard (P9X79 LE)

Purchased this motherboard to support a Core i7-4930K, the flexibility provided by 8 lanes for memory are nice and will support up to 128GB. Also, the addition of USB 3.0 is essential, and it is nice to see P/S2 connections available (while rarely used at this point). After using the board for about a year and a half, the machine has been completely stable and the onboard audio produces pretty good sound. The blue color scheme looks very nice and is refreshing in a sea of red components seen from not only ASUS but a number of other major manufacturers. Final note on the BIOS itself, the mouse enabled interface is responsive and much easier to use than a traditional keyboard only approach and the options for overclocking and tuning are easy to find and control. Beyond allowing for overclocking relatively easily, the BIOS also has some more general tuning options geared towards energy efficiency, performance, and balanced settings. Great board for the price. Tough to find the same feature set in the same price bracket from other manufacturers.

Pros: Supports LGA 2011 CPUs Support for 8 DIMMs and 64GB of RAM Tons of ports and expansion Cons: Only 2 SATA 3 connectors Only 2 USB 3.0 ports I love this motherboard. It comes with an auto overclocking feature that works very well. It will do small OCs until it crashes, then it will revert to the last good OC. If you plan on using a back up power supply, you will need a very beefy setup. This mobo can support 3 GPUs at 16x/16x/8x. Get a high quality and powerful PSU.

My old motherboard (ASRock) was giving me some errors so I replaced it with this board. After about a month this board started acting up as well and eventually would not POST. I ordered a replacement board and had the same problem so I took the entire lot to the computer repair shop. They sent the CPU back to Intel, who diagnosed it as faulty and sent a replacement. Repair shop tested the new cpu with all known good components except motherboard and the system failed to POST. I brought everything home and tried the original original ASUS MB again with the same results. So- did the CPU fail and kill the MB or did the MB fail and kill the CPU? Odd that two boards don't work- maybe the CPU killed both boards? If so, then I would have to knock the MB for lacking whatever protection would have kept if from being killed by the CPU. On the up side, I like the looks of the board and installation was much easier than with the ASRock, especially getting the large video card and large CPU cooler in without them in physical contact. I have requested a replacement for the second board and will update this review once things are worked out. Interesting note- this board is not listed on the ASUS web page without doing a search. 5 Stars for Amazon customer service and the service I received from Computer Ally in Ann Arbor, MI.

I was expecting for an expensive MB i ordered to work. But when i got it, it wouldn't go past the bios menu. This red cpu led would light up even though its installed correctly and recognized in the bios, which is apparently a common problem. I would hit a screen asking me if i wanted to repair windows or boot normally, both just end up sending me back to that screen one way or another. Extremely disappointed and angry that my computer wont be working any time soon due to asus. Good job fixing problems that you know are there. Still sitting here trying to get this piece of crap to boot into windows.

I ordered a CyberPower system with this motherboard in it in September of '13. It's been running pretty much continuously since then, as it's the primary computer for my home network. I was very pleased with it; the layout worked very well and I had plenty of room in my full size case for everything I needed. In the summer of '15, the onboard sound stopped working. There was a very high pitched squeal and I tried many and varied methods to get it to work, but it was clear that the module had ceased working properly, so I was pleased to discover that the MOBO has a 3 year warranty on this product. Unfortunately, I discovered that a 2 or 3 week turnaround time on getting it back to me (not to mention the teardown process to disassemble the tower and then reassemble when returned), I discovered an easy workaround that involved using the HDMI connection from my graphics card to my monitor. Yay, sound again. Today, I came home to find the Ethernet controller has stopped working. No internet. Thankfully, I had an old ethernet card in my box-o-computer-goodies, plugged it in and I'm back in business. This, however required me to remove one of my graphics cards. This MOBO is 2 and a half years old, and in all my years of computing (and I've had, and cared for, at least a couple of dozen comps in the last 20+ years), I have never had such an EXPENSIVE board fail in pieces like this. Since it is still under warranty, I sadly may have to resort to using it though I will be forced to commandeer my significant others' machine for the weeks that mine will be down. This work and inconvenience is VERY FRUSTRATING.

Two dimms and the ethernet port were broken. Board works great otherwise. Upgraded to a NIC card and moved the dimms around and its fine. Otherwise most impressive. The CPU heatsink was a cinch compared to most boards, very customizable and able to overclock. For a board designed in 2011 still a go to for the LGA 2011 chipset. Not thrilled I will never be able to fully run 64GB of Ram, but what can you do. Seller offered to return it, however the disclaimer on his site said, we will opt to fix before refunding and as I use this computer for my at home business I couldn't wait.

Runs nicely and is an all around amazing motherboard. The only problem is that it takes the lga 2011 intel card which makes it more expensive, but it runs a lot better than a new Cpu.

Great