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If you use a Sandy bridge CPU like the 2500/2600/2700 models then you'll have less PCIe lanes available and loose the lower slot, hence Ivy Bridge is obviously recommended.

Okay, hidden funky stuffz. To your right you can see a switch, that's a dual-BIOS switch, should your firmware flash fail or pretty much you destroyed your primary BIOS, here you can switch towards the second one. Obviously you could also setup on BIOS for performance stuff, and the other for energy friendly stuff.  Multi-BIOS II is a safety feature that ensures a working BIOS even if it fails once. An Indicator light will always show which revision of the BIOS you are running.

There's more though, see that little button to the middle left ? That's Go2BIOS. Typically when you need to access the BIOS holding the Delete key can be a bit annoying hammering down the key to get access. Now you can press this button and you'll boot into the BIOS. Very simple, but quite handy really.

A two-digit Debug LED is present as well. It shows the exact system status while booting (for easy troubleshooting) and displays the CPU temperature when running in the OS.

Just under the 24pin motherboard power connector you can spot V-Check points.

Very handy if you like to monitor VCCP, CPU VTT, CPU Graphics, DDR VCC, and the PCH voltages with a digital multimeter. Here we are in the overclock session at 5 GHz on the Intel Core i7 3770K processor.