Hi Gents,

I am pro musician with extravagent needs.

Looks like I'm in the right place.

I have been using stable sytems w/ stock Intel boards for years, and have been warned over, and over........do not OC you DAW.

Well, I saw first hand what benefits can be achieved a couple of weeks ago by a friend who is an extreme OC'r / gamer.

I was concerned about my 45 DSP's that reside on the 32bit PCI slots. So that is where my dilemma lies.

I was proven on a DFI 975 board that one could tweak the other busses and leave that buss alone. The apps I use will be extracting audio from ny HDD arrays, so it looks safe to me.

The CPU and memory really benefit from the amount of Virtual instruments I can load, and the host app, Gigastudio 4 will spawn multiple threads to feed these instruments. So I am going to follow advice on tweaking my purchase here.

You guys are deep and I feel as though this is the place.

I await the QX9650, and the DFI X38 T2R. My reason for this choice is that my apps benefit from lower latency RAM.

I await their release feverishly.