Right about the magnetic screwdriver. That was an issue with the screws closest to the edge of the board where it conjoins with the case. Of course being a doofus I don't have one. Things worked out OK in the end.
Damn, this board is excellent. Once I figured out that I had to start off booting with only the SSD connected, everything went flawlessly and only a few drivers needed to be loaded. Back in business 100% and I'm running Prime at 4.2 GHz as an initial OCing pass. I'm actually considering water now. I think it's worth it to spend more money to get a higher-end board with the better capacitors and MOSFETs with a longer warranty. My old board had an electrical fault that left it crashing pretty frequently (due to an OCing overvolt screwup). The UEFI BIOS also seems a lot more solid now, compared to the first-generation P67 board I had, which really was a piece of crap.
They provide a couple of 40mm fans (screamers as C2Bcool says) for specific parts of the board, which is nice. I'm using them and you know, they're pretty dang quiet. Asus also provides inserts for empty slots to keep dust out of those too. At least eight fan headers by my count as well. *Never* seen that many in any consumer board I've ever used.
Oh, even better: It saw and used my old RAID array without any issue at all! Unbelievable! From the old P67 chipset to the Z77 chipset, the Raid 0 pair I had kicked up perfectly once I set the BIOS. Intel RAID is the shizzle.
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