Asus P9X79 Motherboard Review

The Asus P9X79 comes with a small assortment of accessories designed to get you up and running with minimal effort.   Included you will get four SATA cables, as set of Q-connect blocks, SLI bridge and I/O shield.

As always the ASUS user guide is well documented and covers a wide variety of topics from heatsink installation to specific PCI Express lane mappings.

Most motherboards come with some sort of tuning and monitoring package to help the hardware enthusiast get the most from their system.  The Asus Ai Suite II is more than just a single overclocking program but encompasses an entire suite of programs to control most everything on the motherboard such as Bluetooth, overclocking and even power delivery.  As you can expect these are split across multiple software packages so you can choose which one you want to install.

Below are some screenshots from the Ai Suite II.

Keep in mind that everything you can control with the Ai Suite II is also available thru the system UEFI.  So, if you're the type who would rather do their tweaks before the OS loads you can do that.  Otherwise fire up the Ai Suite II after Windows loads and do your tuning in real time before committing your changes.