The ASUS P9X79 Pro contains the X79 Express chipset and its socket is LGA 2011, built to house the Intel Core i7 SandyBridge Extreme Processors. The P9X79 Pro offers multiple ASUS innovations which you may not find on other X79 motherboards. These include Dual Intelligent Processor 3 for a more reliable power phase control of the CPU and DRAM, ASUS SSD Caching, Intel Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 3.0 and ASUS AI Suite which allows the user total control of the motherboards settings in an OS based atmosphere. With forty PCI express lanes the ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard won't have you suffering for bandwidth when running an SLI or crossfire configuration. The X79 Pro also contains eight DDR3 Quad Channel memory banks and which accommodates up to 64GB of RAM.