MAXIMUS V EXTREME gotchas?

[solarys]

Help needed! Several questions to ask. Looking to purchase ASUS MAXIMUS V EXTREME in the very near future. Are there any known gotchas, before I purchase this motherboard? This system is for gaming and streaming video.

Looking to add a Geforce GTX 670 GPU, 16gb of ram, and Windows 7 or 8(not sure right now).

What would be a good CPU to make this motherboard scream? I know I don't need the fastest Intel makes. I am not crazy about overclocking the CPU. With five harddrives (1-ssd, 7200 rpm drives), a premium 800-1000 watt power supply should to the job.

Again, are any gotchas, and what they with the ASUS MAXIMUS V EXTREME motherboard?

Any/all suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Paul]

Pretty low posting rate here. My only concern with such an observation,
would be how many BIOS updates you get from Asus (i.e. design effort
to fix outstanding bugs). Asus puts more effort into motherboards that
have sold a boatload of product.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=MAXIMUS+V+EXTREME&SLanguage=en-us

Review any failures here, before you buy. The customer reviews, while
a few will be "death by incompetence", if there is a problem
it'll stand out.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131858

I generally ignore any too-long reviews here. They look a bit cooked.

http://www.amazon.com/Maximus-EXTREME-Intel-Extended-Motherboard/product-reviews/B008FSEBDG/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

That motherboard is 12" x 10.7" in dimension, so make sure you have
room for it. A full sized regular ATX is 12" x 9.6", and the Extreme
is about an inch wider than normal. Some computer cases will have
a hard drive stack that will be very close to that. And could
conflict with side-mounted SATA motherboard connectors. Could be
a knuckle-buster.

I have to question whether you really need all those x16 slots. You
could shave $100 off the motherboard price, get a mid-range motherboard,
and put the $100 into the processor.

Here is a processor. 3770K.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116501

You can certainly beat the 3770K on multi-threaded benchmarks,
with a processor with more cores, but it'll likely cost $1000 to
do so. The 3770K is a good compromise. Some benchmarks don't
even get the full benefit from the more expensive 6C 12T processors.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz Passmark = 9,609

Paul