Why is it that Malaysia only has F2A55-M LK2 Plus? I'm looking for the F2A55-M LK Plus, but all the stores apparently only carry the LK2 variant. I want to use an EAH6670/DI/1GD3 with an A10 for dual graphics, but I also need the adjacent PCIe x1 slot for a Sonnet FireWire card (the front panel has a FireWire port and I don't want it being useless), and I understand that the said EAH6670 card will block the x1 slot. On the original LK, since there is two PCIe x1 slots, I can insert the FireWire card into PCIe x1 slot 2 and just leave slot 1 blocked by the graphics card.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Feb 7 2013, 12:27 AM

Thank you for the answer. I'm satisfied with the explaination, although it means that I need to import the board that suits my requirements as well as forego warranty.

I also have a second reason for a LK Plus instead of a LK2 Plus. Although this one is less critical.

I have a Sony BDU-X10S BD-ROM drive. I previously thought the drive was broken when I switched to using AHCI for the advantages it brings with SATA hard disks and the drive stopped working, but now I found out that the fault lies within the extremely failtastic firmware Sony wrote- the drive only supports IDE instructions even though it has a SATA interface, and will not operate with chipsets in AHCI mode. Even worse is that Sony refuses (or cannot) fix the flaw. I found out that on the LK Plus, SATA ports 5 and 6 operates independently from ports 1 to 4 and that I can set ports 5 and 6 to "Legacy IDE" to cater to the drive while having ports 1-4 work in AHCI so the hard disks can still have full performance. On the LK2, there is no ports 5 and 6 and thus I have to leave the hard disks crippled in IDE mode if I choose to use the BD-ROM drive.

But yeah. Biggest deal breaker is that I need both a PCIe x16 and a PCIe x1 slot, and on the LK2, installing a EAH6670 to unleash dual graphics means that I can not use the adjacent PCIe x1 slot.

Maybe Asus should make a single slot version of the EAH6670 to go with the LK2

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Feb 20 2013, 05:24 AM