First off nice review as always.
I've had the board for a few months now and my complaints are pretty much the same. Very poor PCIe layout and the horribly large NB/SB/Mosfet sink. It makes the top two PCIe x1 slots useless. Unless you need the SATA6Gbps and the USB3.0 I'd much rather pay the extra ~$30 and get a Classified.