Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: EVGA 790i FTW Digital PWM
From the looks of the specs this is the board to have if you were looking at getting a new mobo soon. http://www.evga.com/articles/00431/ _________________ Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev. 2.0 - AMD FX 8120 - 2 x 2gb G.Skill 12800 ddr3 - Corsair 1000w PSU - Cooler Master HAF Case - 128 GB Corsair M4 SSD - 150 GB Raptor - 1 TB WD Black edition - 2 x Evga 580's - 37" Vizio - Win7 Pro 64
damn board sounds sick but i am not willing to order new ram and a new board with the new nehalem cores being right around the corner needing a new board anyway i just picked up this x48 dfi board and this time i am gonna fight the urge to swap it out _________________ CPU: Intel Core i7 2700k w/ h2O
Mobo: ASUS p8z86 Deluxe gen3
Memory: 16gb G Skill Ripjaws (DDR3 1600)
Graphics: EVGA GTX 670 2gb
PSU: Corsair AX850
Storage: OCZ Vertex 3 120 gb SSD, Seagate 1.5tb
Case: CM HAF 932 Advanced
OS: Win. 7 Ult. x64
damn board sounds sick but i am not willing to order new ram and a new board with the new nehalem cores being right around the corner needing a new board anyway i just picked up this x48 dfi board and this time i am gonna fight the urge to swap it out
Ya i want to upgrade my stuff right now but I'm waiting for the Nehalems/bloomfields to come out and ill get new ram and mobo then as well. _________________ Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev. 2.0 - AMD FX 8120 - 2 x 2gb G.Skill 12800 ddr3 - Corsair 1000w PSU - Cooler Master HAF Case - 128 GB Corsair M4 SSD - 150 GB Raptor - 1 TB WD Black edition - 2 x Evga 580's - 37" Vizio - Win7 Pro 64
Ya im starting to think maybe wait until the 2nd generation nehalems come out and just upgrade to the mobo in this thread and a quad core 9650 with some nice ddr3 meory but im not sure what to do. Should I wait or upgrade now? _________________ Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev. 2.0 - AMD FX 8120 - 2 x 2gb G.Skill 12800 ddr3 - Corsair 1000w PSU - Cooler Master HAF Case - 128 GB Corsair M4 SSD - 150 GB Raptor - 1 TB WD Black edition - 2 x Evga 580's - 37" Vizio - Win7 Pro 64
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:
blitz00 wrote:
Ya im starting to think maybe wait until the 2nd generation nehalems come out and just upgrade to the mobo in this thread and a quad core 9650 with some nice ddr3 meory
That's exactly what I did! Except I went with The Striker II Extreme. I'm not biting til the dust settles a bit on Nehalem. _________________ i7/930 - Noctua NH-C12P
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