nice - make sure to configure it so that you can do the -bigadv flag (16 core minimum requirement, but HUGE points bonuses - if you can finish them early!!)plus I just aquired 4x 3.0ghz quadcore xeons in the form of 2 dl160 g6's
@5pot: yea, i was thinking about a 7970 for my media center, but i've been seeing a lot of negative reviews (most regarding build quality). i want to add something for my media server that can get decent points (on the GPU side), without spending a small fortune. who knows, maybe 780/770 prices will come down when the 800s come out - or maybe the 800s will be cheaper than the 700 series....i'm WAY sick of seeing $700+ top end cards. that's just too much. i can see it for the dual GPU cards, but it's just too much for a single GPU card. as far as haswell (and IB-E) - yea, i was seriously dissapointed too. the ONLY reason i might get a IB-E is for native PCIe3 support (and only because it's a drop in replacement for SB-E and my MB is already PCI3-ready) - but if it comes out and is not soldered (like mainstream IB wasn't) forget it...dissapointingly, Intel is seriously screwing their enthusiast crowd: SB-E (Nov 2011) is the only enthusiast part since Nehalem was released in Nov 2008. that's just unacceptable. and with IB-E not being much of an upgrade (if at all really)....well, yea....
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