
However, we’ve found Killer NICs don't improve online game performance much in these days of reliable high-speed broadband. Plus there’s the new Thunderbolt add-in card, which incorporates a Killer NIC processor and an Asus Xonar two-channel sound chip.


This might support all the fancy EAX 5.0 game audio effects, but it does so in software and there’s no Crystallizer either.īluetooth 3.0 is provided, and there are four network controllers, two audio processors and more overclocking tools than you could possibly use – the lack of tea-making facilities seems almost stingy. Click to enlargeFurthermore, the motherboard itself has 802.11n WiFi and Intel Gigabit LAN built in, plus an eight-channel Creative SupremeFX X-Fi 2 audio codec.
