Seven $260-$320 X79 Express Motherboards, Reviewed

amuffinfoxconn boards are pretty good.They've been making decent enthusiast boards on-and-off for a while.

Quick coment on looks only (I know its specs that count not looks but oh well)
ASRock X79 Extreme6/GB - very nice all black looks better than gigabytes atempt
Asus P9X79 Pro - new baby blue they use on all the boards... not for me
ECS X79R-AX - looks like my old pentium 2 board with the white slots
Foxconn Quantumian-1 - i like i like gives a feeling of the ROG ASUS boards
Gigabyte X79-UD3 - rip of from the ASRock X79 Extreme6/GB (lol) plus the southbridge heatsink looks old fasion and ugly.
Intel DX79SI - now this board for me looks good actualy more than good looks the best :) must be the scull lol
MSI X79A-GD65 8D - also very nice love the blue + Black.

If you have one of the boards and i insulted it, wasnt the intention, just my view of the board>

My only question is.. Why do you guys need 6 freaking $1050 processors? Good golly gosh!

Great descriptive article.

One thing I'm not sure of is the acceptance and actual usage of eSATA. While practical at some level, is anyone actually using this MB feature or is this one of those things the MB producers can skip out on like parallel and serial ports? I'm not sure enthusiasts are all that into using their eSATA ports?

Personally, I think this is one of those money saving opportunities MB producers should consider.

After the X58 anal pounding, you would be a moron to buy a X79. It's life is predicted to be even shorter than X58.

Actualy i agree with you ubercake, i have never used my E-sata, and with usb 3.0 out doubt anyone still uses E-sata if they have before.