Quote Originally Posted by 3oh6 View Post
.... compared to the 790i, the RE is tame though. you want to talk about navigating a mine field to get the most out of a board...but when you figure her out, the 790i can be a monster too.
Lol, one of the reasons that I wanted to go 790i FTW. With the amount of time that I spent on my S2E, I could almost write a thesis on the S2E and get a doctorate, lol. From my experience with the S2E, that board was pretty finicky with the RAM too(read the ICs on them). Try I might, I could not get the board prime stable either with my EB sticks and my Gskills(BHZ)(Everything looks stable,but prime fails randomly), both have some kind of D9 or the other. But it seems to really really like my samsung based OCZs(DDR3-2000 4GB kits).I was very stable with my Qx9650 running 450x9 linked and synced(1:2). I could also get the board pretty stable with 475x8 if I disable P1/P2 with my Qx9650 1:2.0804 BIOS and latter really let the beast of the S2E out.


But for all that, I still went with the RE because I will have two platforms so that I can choose the gfx card(xfire or SLI) with two kickass CPUs(E8600 and Qx9650). I could also pick and choose my platform for either of these CPUs depending on which rus better on what. Even if the RE happens to not like the quad and I could put my E8600 on it and I know I can run my Qx9650 4GHZ 24/7 stable on my S2E with pretty good FSB.

Sorry about a pretty big post and going a bit off topic.I will have to get back to putting my stuff together. Man, we also have a good game on tonight . Now I would have to choose ARGH!!!!!