I wish motherboard manufacturers would stop doing this as ASRock is not alone in its placement. Aside from that the location of the CMOS battery is terrible. With memory modules flanking two sides of the CPU socket, your options for air cooling may be a bit constrained depending on how much RAM ASRock X79 Extreme9 install. There is no color coding which honestly bothers me. I prefer to know what slots to use at a glance when setting up the[…]