Since Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 is positioned as a top of the line solution, it features two fully-functional PCI Express x16 slots compliant with 2.0 specification. These slots allow installing two graphics cards combined into a single Crossfire configuration. I would like to specifically point out that the graphics slots have been very conveniently located on the PCB. There is a significant gap between them, which will be enough for any cooling system. The remaining PCI and PCI Express x1 expansion slots will never be fully blocked in this case.
There are some more serious drawbacks: abit IP35 Pro is not as flexible with the memory, as some of its competitors. Even some of the budget mainboards offer more memory dividers than abit IP35 Pro. Moreover, ASUS, DFI and Gigabyte mainboards also can change Performance Level parameter directly, and abit IP35 Pro cannot, though this parameter does have big influence on the general system performance. Of course, mainboards for office PCs will not require any of these features, but a high-performance overclocker mainboard got to have them.
