"Motherboards utilizing the LGA 1155 socket interface are versatile and this roundup showed that when running the boards with the default settings, they are all capable of squeezing every last ounce of performance out of the Ivy Bridge micro-architecture. However, each board has its own flavor, giving them each their own unique appeal. All of the motherboards also leverage the new features of the Panther Point design such as native support for SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0, and come with support for Lucid GPU virtualization for improved gaming performance and Intel Quick Sync, improving both encoding and decoding performance."
