I will be baaaaack (with all of Arnold's inflections) and will indeed report in. ;-)
I am baaack!!!!!!! All I can say is I have built many computers in my day and the ASUS P6X58D Premium is the best motherboard the world has ever seen.
Stunning!!! Oh,... and love at first site. Now my wife is jealous and wants me to build her one and I am. Newegg, do you want more of my money? <g>
Okay, I am considered sick when it comes to the amount of time I do research on componentry. I probably spent 160 hours in the last 4 months researching and the build took me less than a day including my preferences with bios, software, imaging, etc.
All of my system builds are future proofed and last a long time.
i7920 8 cores with hyper-threading
Noctua NH-U9B SE2 92mm SSO CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator DD3 6GB
4 Hard Drives 2 new huge Western Digitals and two smaller and older Maxtors
Corsair HX620
EVGA 9500 GT
Plextor 24X DVD/CD
Nexus and Noctua case fans
Win7 64bit
Stock CPU speed is running at 34C; I will overclock a bit once I get settled in with some of my digital recording applications and additional audio hardware. Also this system build is extremely quiet and my dB meter cannot even register a reading. Ambient room noise is louder. LOL!!!
Computer is running flawless in every way and was an easy build except for a flawed Win7 product key code and I was on the phone with Microsoft for two hours with three reps from three countries.
Just wanted to chime in and give my 2 cents for you folks who might be on the fence and are afraid to make the jump. Jump!!!! Just go ahead and jump. Jump!!!
Your friend,
HIO
P.S. I have no affiliation to the aforementioned companies except I bought their products.
They can send me a check if they want to and so can everyone that might have benefited from this post. ;-)