Hmm was it the same Again Asus and Intel boards first available, my main Bord decission for SB back then was initialy MSI but as said it was non available @ that early days ?
Welcome in the M PRO club i guess not much will have changed in that Board series and it will come with Protect 3 ?
Though nobody really ever made a test to my known about Protect 3 and if it really does what it's advertised for
but if they make a special board of this series for enterprises with that same guarantee i guess it can't be that bad
Though the first tests of their EPU Chip didn't looked that good back then and even Intel boards beat it in Power Consumption (Reference boards).
PS: 2696 are released now
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/2115...eNotes_GFX.htm