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All the bells and whistles thrown onto new enthusiast Sandy Bridge board.
Looks pretty cramped around the cpu socket, may cause problems for some cpu coolers (though this is nothing new).
2x EPS connectors and I spy a molex next to the heat sink where a north bridge would be. (guessing that's the nf200 chip)
How much power does this thing need?
More likely the molex is for powering multiple high-end graphics cards. With each one drawing up to 75W from the PCI-e sockets, the motherboard ATX connector can become overwhelmed and overheat without a secondary power source to help reduce the load.