Mother Of Board
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New component!
Some of you may remember my posting of a dual socket ASUS AMD-compatible motherboard before BrickFest. It was the ASUS L1N64-SLI WS Dual Socket......board. It really, really intrigued me to perhaps be running dual 3.0 GHz over 8 GB of RAM, a beast of a machine if ever there was one.
And then I came to my senses. I shouldn't get that, for multiple reasons:
- Cost: $2100 for just a board, RAM, & processors. That's a lot of pretty pennies.
- Excessivity: If you have to think about your answer to the question if you need that much power, the answer is no.
- Operating System: There's a difference between a Vista-ready machine, and a machine built for Vista. I want the former, because I don't have the money for the latter.
- Timing: AMD is going to release a Quad-core processor by the end of the summer, relegating the second socket to "dust trap" status: not even Vista Ultimate can utilize more than 4 CPU cores.
Instead, I present to you: the ASUS Crosshair. Plenty of muscle for my means.
$243.31 including shipping, from NewEgg.
Photo gallery here, when public.
It's not coming out of its box until I build the computer, which will be several months. One, I don't want it collecting unnecessary dust, and two, I don't want to static-kill it before I install it. Sorry, no pics of the actual board until then.
I'm so excited, part of me wants to buy the rest of the stuff right now. But I'll wait, as I've spent my computer budget for the month.
Thoughts welcome.
-KIE
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