This mainboard receives a Gold plus an Amazing Value award from Vortez for its impressive performance, the efficient passive cooling, the affordability and the excellent board layout. The main cons are voltage adjustment issues and the lack of USB 3.0 support.

"What we have here is a motherboard that comes in at a very affordable price point but one that could be at the heart of a considerably potent and very capable high end machine! To trade blows (and quite often better) a high end board like the Crosshair IV Extreme is something else. Of course there are caveats in that updated chipset drivers could have a noteworthy effect on scores but in all honesty I couldn't see the boosts being so great that the A9DA-S would get left behind."



Link: Vortez