OK... sadly I must announce my point of view:
I decided to switch from AMD FX8350 + ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX to intels i7 6700k + Z170 chipset... my choice wasn't easy, many motherboards on marked have worst and older realtek codec than this one on SABERTOOTH 990FX - ALC892 wchich is 7.1+2 Channel HD Audio Codec with Content Protection, even flagship micro-ATX Z170M-PLUS mobo uses ALC887 (almost ten years old chipset) only 7.1 without support for playback protected high definition audio in full resolution. Because my pc is a multipurpose machine office + entertainment I need a lot of USB ports, again Z170M-PLUS have less usb ports on back panel 2x usb 3.0 and 2x usb 2.0 + useless ps2 ports for keyboard and mice...... LOL !!!!! Old Sabbertooth have 8x USB 2.0 and 2x USB 3.0.... YYYY! 10x USB on back panel just ready to use!!
That why I decided to pay almost twice more and buy MAXIMUS VIII GENE: better, newest audio with support for content protected fullres audio and almost so many usb ports as I need.... OK...
Hovewer im rly disspointed because u claimed your audio is "Best gaming audio – reinvented SupremeFX 2015 with intuitive Sonic Studio II".... it past one year since M8GENE landed on market and still it have childhood issues... TT x1
I must now plug and unplug and plug again camera to Skyping or gaming or streaming... TT x2
I must close Sonic Suit II when going to gaming because it crashing games like DOOM... TT x3
Described issues of Sonic Suite are nothing new, just look around, many forums proves my words about SSII, and proves ASUS do nothing with it...
http://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/0/350532795335351966/https://www.reddit.com/r/darkestdungeon/comments/41yh8z/darkest_dungeon_hates_my_sonic_suite_2_app/http://community.battlefront.com/topic/123274-why-does-sonic-suite-2-prevent-cmbs-and-cmrt-from-laun...etc.
TT x4
I made a ticket to tech support, almost week ago, and today still NO ANSWER! WTM20160913043944677
TT x5
ANSWER ME why u advertise your MOBO as gaming, and Sonic suite as a gaming, while it is ANTY-gaming?
my conclusion is:
I WANT MY CASH BACK ASAP! Come here take your M8GENE and give me my money.