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

I like this motherboard a lot because it's among the cheapest you can find in what is an expensive segment (the LGA 2011 socket is meant for the Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E line of Intel CPUs). It's great if you don't intend to deck out your computer with multiple hard drives, graphics cards, etc. The system I was building had one hard drive (a solid state drive), one internal drive (a blue ray/dvd player), front-chassis USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 slots, one graphics card, one internal wireless adapter, two CPU fans, and three chassis fans. I sacrificed nothing in terms of plugging into the best ports that exist for each respective device. This means 6gbs SATA ports for the sold state drive and blue ray player, internal ports to plug in the front-chassis USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, PCIe x16 for the graphics card, at least PCIe x4 for the wireless adapter I had, two cpu fan slots, and four for chassis fans. I could of added a second graphics card too for SLI/Crossfire as there was a second PCIe x16 slot. A third SATA device would have forced me to go with a 3gbs slot. If doing SLI/Crossfire, a third PCIe device would at most be PCIe x8. So if this is what you intend, you should perhaps get a more expensive but slot rich motherboard. Also, this motherboard had good features, such as updating BIOS via a USB, a button to see if your RAM is compatible/working, and an easy to use BIOS that supports use of a mouse.

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.

I needed a MB in a hurry to replace a defective Asrock Extreme3. This Asus P9X79 LE is a great MB, even if it is their bargain price basic MB. I have built many PC's; setting up & using this MB has been a joy! I upgraded CPU to i7-4820k, so I had to use USB Bios Flash to update bios. USB Bios Flash worked great! EZ Bios setup with USB mouse interface - (this was cool). EZ OC with AutoTune II, running stable at 4.7GHz & Ram at 2096MHz. I am currently using 1 SSD on Sata3 & 2 HDD Raid0 on Sata2 ports. If there is a downside, it is there are only 2 Sata3 ports.

I was also looking at a couple of more expensive ASUS boards and ended up buying this one. It has loads of features, with the (as usual) excellent ASUS bios. It has yet to cause me any trouble. Although it does "only" support two-card SLI/Crossfire, it does have more than enough USB (also 3.0) ports and SATA (6 Gbps) ports, for as many peripherals as you can stand. If you're in the market for an inexpensive 2011 board, check this one out. It will not disappoint.

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.

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.

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.

Easy to install, clean, nice looking,plenty of sockets, not too gaudy in my humble opinion and for the price this thing is a beast. Definitely recommended for those looking to build a very high end computer. With this and a Radeon HD 7970, and 16 gigs of ram, theres really nothing my computer can't do

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