ASUS P9X79 Pro Intel X79 Motherboard Review
ASUS P9X79 Pro X79 MotherboardSo which comes first? The chicken or the egg? We can't have a survey of the ASUS P9X79 Pro Intel X79 motherboard without a new Intel Sandy Connexion-E processor, can we? Of course we can't launch the new Intel X79 Get across chipset without a review of the LGA2011 processor! So, while Nate has been working poverty-stricken on the processor review of the Intel Core i7 3960X which he has so expressively put together for us here , we will be taking a look at one of the first Intel X79 motherboards from ASUS, the ASUS P9X79 Pro! The occupation Nate is doing is focusing more on the performance of the new Intel Pith i7 3960 Sandy Bridge E processor, while we will be focusing on the execution and features of the ASUS P9X79 Pro LGA2011 motherboard and the Intel X79 chipset. We will be fetching a look at the performance scaling in NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX as well as the doing of the integrated SATA III 6Gbps and SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Since this is the first Intel X79 to pop up on our radar, we are growing to compare it to a handful of systems from both AMD and Intel!