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A new socket change (LGA1155) was required for Sandy Bridge processors, no new cooler mount is needed as LGA 1156 coolers could fit fine as the four mount holes have the exact same specification. Some of you might be unlucky with an improper fitting CPU cooler back plate though.

If we zoom in a little we can spot lots of room around socket LGA 1155, also we spot quality capacitors and solid core chokes. This is the DrMOS design, which is found under the heatsink bundled with 3 important elements into Military Class II including SFC, Hi-c CAP and Solid Capacitors.

The ATX motherboard power connector is positioned properly, with above it the four DDR3 DIMM slots. The motherboard can take up-to 32GB of memory clocked at 1333 MHz up-to 2133 MHz.

Overclocked BIOS options allow for settings at 1600/1866 and even 2133 MHz out of the box as well. Of course your memory needs to support this, as well as your processors memory dividers. BIOS wise you have a second backup BIOS, should you screw something up, you can press a button and get into a fail-safe mode. Here just under the DIMM slots you can spot four PEG switches, with these switches you can manually disable the corresponding PCIe slot, for pro-overclockers on LN2 etc that might be handy as you do not have to remove or physically insert the graphics card. Only switch with the system powered down of course. To your left the blue block with micro switches allows you to select a wider BIOS voltage range.

Above it (top right) an array of LEDs, when the motherboard is enabled the LEDS become active and shows the status of the corresponding power phase.