When this motherboard and its controversial color theme were displayed the first time at this year's Cebit, people all over the net were debating whether Sapphire could deliver an overclocking board. Now, after a long wait, the board is finally ready.

As it looks right now, Sapphire did a great job with it. The motherboard is very fast, even when not overclocked. There are a load of options available in the BIOS to tweak every little setting of the system. For new users these options can be set to 'auto' to let the board handle them automatically. The range of available options is exemplary, so is the manual which explains almost all of them.

While there were a few BIOS issues with the current motherboard, these will be fixed when retail sales begin, which will be some time in August.

What I am missing a bit is a second PCI-Express x16 slot to run two video cards -Sapphire is working on a Crossfire board already...