Laying Low

I took the weekend off for Thanksgiving and am back with some sort of throat cold. I'm going to lay low today and hopefully get a few new posts tomorrow.

Be well!

Happy Thanksgiving to All

Happy Thanksgiving to All - go tweak your mobo!

ASUS Striker Extreme Republic of Gamers Series - Motherboard - ATX - nForce 680i

ASUS Striker Extreme Republic of Gamers Series - Motherboard - ATX - nForce 680i - $323.61. Now that ain't cheap!

Overclocking, performance, unique features, and rich software bundled are the 4 basic commitments to R.O.G (Republic of Gamers) members. Striker Extreme provide a detailed BIOS option for enthusiast tweaking, 8-phase capless power to ensure the SLI performance reliability, and the unique gaming features, such as LCD poster, EL I/O, Onboard LED, Onboard button, ...etc. Once you use it, you would love it.

Multi Mobos

Are there any chassis out there that can house multiple motherboards? That would be cool for space saving efforts.

Retail Store Selection

In reference to my buddy Boone's rig ideas, I'm checking both online and retail store availabilities in suggesting a place to buy. Online is certainly cheaper but he may decide he wants to pick it up in a store to get it quick. The problem I'm running in to is that the stores don't carry my SLI board selection and the ones they do have are substantially more money. Humph.

Wifi on Mobo

I have to find out if any of the nVidia SLI mobos have built in wifi.

Another MotherBoard Post with cool links

Check out some Amazon Asus Links and let me know what you think!

They're great mobos in case you haven't heard.

Mega Cool - Mega Cheap SLI Setup

I decided to put together a proposal for my buddy Boone to get him upgraded off his current gaming PC. It's a home built PC with all Nvidia SLI certified parts. Here's what's on the list:

• ASUS M2N-E SLI ATX AMD Motherboard $89.99
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Processor
• Kingston HyperX 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory $69.99
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3120811AS 120GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $47.99
• XFX PV-T86J-YAHG GeForce 8500GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card $89.99 OR
  
• XFX PV-T86J-UAHG GeForce 8500GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card $74.99
• Enermax ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) ATX12V Ver 2.0 535W Power Supply 115/230 V UL, cUL, TUV, CB $79.99

Total: $443.94 (512MB Video Card)
$428.94 (256MB Video Card)

Not too shabby, eh?

Big Asus Board

Shown below is another Asus board that I spotted in their Gaming MB section. It's called Maximus Formula (Special Edition).

Among other things, it's ready for any Intel Quad or next generation Multi Core CPU, both Core 2 Extreme and Dual Core ready, FSB of up to 1600 MHz, 8GB DIMMS, 5 PCIe slots, over-clocking features.



I did some quick searching and found a low price of $259.99 on the Internet giving this board a heavy price but I think it's worth every penny.

Asus Commando

Being an Asus freak, I'm recommending a motherboard I don't even own. It's the Asus Commando.


Quad and Core 2 ready, 8GB max RAM, 1066MHz front side bus, this motherboard is just waiting to consume any game you throw at it.

Dell

Does anyone know what kind of mother boards Dell is using in their PCs? Are they manufacturing their own or using someone else's and sticking their name on them?

I'm running an XPS 410 and am loving it. I never thought I'd buy a Dell for a game PC since I prefer building my own but I'm impressed with its blazing speed so far.