Hardware Asus Maximus V Gene Review

No, but it's getting to as good as the onboard codec can muster. This is still not as good as the CMedia Oxygen 8888 though, but the cost difference in chip is also a few orders of magnitude. Any sound card - even a half height one has more PCB space than onboard audio, which gives it breathing room in design to avoid EMI.

 

I recently bought this board, and I've noticed that there are a pair of 2x4 pinouts between the 2nd PCIEx16 slot and the PCIEx4 slot. They´re unmarked. Anyone know exactly what these are for?