The board I have is pretty nice. (Gigabyte x58a-ud3r) It doesn't like to OC over 4.2 though because the lowest QPI multi is 36x and when it gets u to about 7.2GTs its gets unstable. It has SATA3 and USB 3.0 which are not used yet but its always a plus to be future proof. Although it's not listed anywhere in the specs it can run a 6 core Gulfton.