The board worked perfectly at overclocked speeds and I did not have any installation issues at all. The bundle included is big enough and completes the board with the newest USB 3.0 and SATA 6G features. The VRM cooling system looks very nice and it was only warm, even during the most stressful tests, at 4GHz. The board is MATX, so it won't take a lot of space inside the case.

The results I have obtained in the tests with this board are very good and sometimes it surpassed some boards with the P55 chipset. I have some observations to make, that I have written down during the test period:

- the motherboard does not have a PS/2 keyboard port, which could have been useful for people that still use old keyboards. Also, with many USB keyboards I had problems in the past because they were not initializing fast enough and I could not enter the BIOS mode

- the overclocking BIOS is still not ergonomic enough. I would have preferred to see one like on ASUS, Foxconn or ASRock boards, where we can see how the memory speeds do modify on the fly, when we set the host clock. In this case, to be able to set the RAM at 1600MHz, when I set the CPU host clock at 200MHz, I had to set the RAM speed in BIOS at 1066MHz

- the XMP profiles support did not worked great, even if it says in the product specifications that they are supported; to test them, I have set the XMP profile in the BIOS, did a reboot and the system did not want to boot successfully any more

- like on the ECS boards I have tested in the past, the voltages we see as options in BIOS are written in increments, not full values, which isn't too helpful

- the board does not feature a failed overclock recovery; if the system is unable to boot, it will not enter a failsafe mode, but will continue to start and stop in a continuous loop

- considering this motherboard comes with 2 expansion cards, we can install only one if we do use a dual slot video card and none can be installed in the case the video card is tri-slot. The only case we can use both cards is to buy a single slot video card.

I would like to thank again to ECS for allowing us to test their products.