Nice board. Thoroughly agree with your conclusions, boss. I'll be sticking with my "980X" for a while yet.

Hilbert was this the highest overclocking Haswell motherboard you've reviewed? Or is it too hard to tell due to the thermal wall? The only features I'm really looking for are the highest OC capabilities I can find and at least 8 SATA 3 ports. What are the odds we'll see an article with some delid OC tests?

Can't tell, the thermal issues of Haswell are the limiting factor, not the motherboards. We can't delid the CPU as we borrow them from Intel.