I've had this board for 2-3 months now. I was really impressed when I first got it but after a while now so USB 3.0 ports stopped working and I bent two socket pins (barely bent). I wanted to ask if this board is officially going to support Ivy Bridg...

I have the Maximus IV Extreme Z. The only thing hot to the touch is the backplate on the videocard.

I'm at 5.0ghz on my i5 2500k @ 1.43v with LLC at 100% in the BIOS. I hooked a multimeter up to the probes and those voltage readings give me 1.44v.My main question is, is this safe? I can live with killing the chip in a year but I really really like ...

I get weird readings like this all the time. For instance like "Optfan3 RPM warning", I've set this to ignore in BIOS. Anyone else have these issues?