Features -
In the current market motherboard (and indeed almost all component) performance is very close. The days of a large performance advantage between boards using the same chipset are long gone. That is unless someone makes a HUGE mistake (like runs traces completely wrong). Now, the thing that differentiates different products is the features. These are things like power management, extra slots, better audio CODECs etc. It is these items that R&D teams work so hard to drop into what are really identical pieces of hardware at their most basic level.

Excellent -
mPCIe Card
USB3.0 Boost
USB BIOS Flashback
GameFirst
T-Topology Trace Tuning
SupremeFX III audio isolation
VirtuMVP
FanXpert2

This list here is pretty long and although many of these might not seem like they belong they actually are very nice features. The mPCIe combo card all on its own is simply amazing; you can drop in a mPCIe card (like a wireless card or similar) on one side and also an mSATA card on the other. The vertical placement of this card means you are not limited by the 55mm restrictions you see on many other boards. Because of this you could drop in a 70mm 128GB card and actually use that for your boot drive if you wanted, it is very cool. The USB 3.0 boost we have already shown off and it is very impressive. With it you can increase the throughput of your USB 3.0 devices very easily.

Another USB feature is the USB BIOS flashback. This hand little tool allows you to flash your BIOS with nothing more than power and a properly formatted USB key. The T-Topology trace tuning we covered in the layout section and it is more impressive than we can tell you right now.

The FanXpert2 features are very cool; before you could control the fans on your board with a great deal of precision and to suit your needs. Now Asus has extended these controls into the AISuite software. IN addition to many of the typical features Asus now allows for Auto Tuning of your fans. When you enable this it finds the minimum and maximum operating speeds of each connected fan. It then creates a profile for silent, standard and turbo. Once you have tuned the fans you can then isolate them in order to map the fans to the headers. This is very cool feature so that you can monitor the exact fan you want by name and location instead of just the header. Often times in a case you might have fans that do not have a named header, with FanExpert2 you can now put a name on the headers.

We could go on, but as you can see the list of features that we see here are simply impressive.

In the middle (sort of good) -
SupremeFX III Audio (not the isolation)
Four SATA 3.0 ports
SLI and Crossfire support

These do not need much of an explanation as they stand out on their own. We are including the audio component here as a middle of the road feature because it is still an onboard CODEC, but we do feel that isolation of this component is an excellent feature.

Floor Mats -
Q-Connect
Front USB 3.0 Connectors
Voltage Monitor Points

The MVG has more features under its hood than these, but some of these we cannot write about just yet. For now we will say that with the features and components you will not be left wanting.