Quote Originally Posted by Sumanji View Post
lol, I'm not that bad... at least I have been keeping up to date with graphics (X800XL, 7900GT, 8800GTS, GTX260)!

Thing is C2D and DDR2 are so dirt cheap at the moment, and the motherboards/chipsets are nice and mature - like a fine wine! But with i7 I don't want to get screwed by crappy motherboards and scalped by pricing...

What to do?
Price depends where you buy. Motherboard...I dont think you get a crappy one either.

I bought an E6600 on release day and a P965 Asus board. I payed about 330$ or so for the E6600. (It was 326$ in bulk from Intel) while bad suppliers took 400$+. And my board can still use 45nm yorkfields, OC like a charm and works flawlessly.