New Rig

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lolwut you picked out a micro atx board

Yup, anyone who reviews it inevitably dips themselves in a vat of plum sauce and runs around screaming "I CAN'T BELIEVE ITS NOT ATX!"

But in all seriousness, this board has got nothing but excellent reviews. If anyone can find a full ATX board with the x58 chipset in the same price range, with the same features and stellar reviews, by all means, point it out to me. The only concern I have going with this m-ATX board is how close my video cards will be to each other.

This one seemed to get decent reviews as well, and its cheaper by about $100.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6813130226

This one is more expensive but also got a decent review.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.as ... 6813130215

I guess my next step will be to compare benchmark values.

would seem to me that getting a RAID setup would be the more noticeable increase in performance over a bit beefier processor or even getting an ssd over the i7

For the same price as my original system, there was no reason to not choose the i7 cpu.

I could certainly achieve faster read/write times by going with a raid array, or amazingly fast read/write with the current gen SSDs. I have been tossing around the idea of getting a SSD, somewhere around 50-100gb just for games. Unfortunately they are still just too damn expensive.

In fact... You have made me seriously considder this. I could drop an extra $50 and get 2x500GB drives. Good call.






EDIT: That first motherboard, the X58 Pro-E actually has better benchmark scores than the m-atx board I has looking at. Means I dont have to spend any "extra" money for another HDD. Fuck this is a great way to kill time at work.