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It's quite safe to say that the Asus Blitz motherboard in an impressive piece of hardware. The bundle is ample and the features are many, that much we can all agree on. I would have liked to tested the Crosslink performance to see what some 8x by 8x CrossFire action would play like. Unfortunately, there isn't much to compare against since there aren't any other Core 2 based Intel P35 chipset boards out there running DDR3 memory than allow for 8x by 8x PCI-e speeds. There are hacks to pull it off, but they can often skew the results.

Asus has done their homework with the Blitz and I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone who might be considering a multi-GPU system. Yes, it's still not 16x by 16x SLI, but it is a step in that direction.

The stock performance is great, but most of that performance may be attributed to the quality of our Corsair TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX memory modules. Tossing in anything of lesser quality could cause some performance woes.

Playing around with the water cooling option could have been fun, but again, it wouldn't have been fair to the other motherboards involved.

Honestly, I'm trying right now to find a negative or two about the Blitz and the only one I can offer is the simple fact that it uses DDR3 memory. That isn't to say of course that the memory performance had some unforgivable issues with it, it's just that I could never justify my hard earned dollars for DDR3 memory at its current price gouging state. One more little issue; I would have liked to have pulled an extra 100-200MHz out of my overclocking exploits. Had the Blitz given me that little extra boost it would be walking away with a medal of honor. Unfortunately, it came up just a tad shy of my higher expectations.

The Asus Blitz Extreme is quite worth its $290 to $300 dollar U.S. selling price. It could make a pretty good single GPU gaming rig and a more than decent office/productivity machine. More PCI-e lanes would have been nice, but Asus did do something quite unique with Crosslink. I wouldn't be suprised if Asus lunched a Berzerker (speculative name on my part) motherboard for the next-gen of Intel chipset, still some months away.