Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
i5 is not the budget category its the mainstream cpu (replacement for Q9xxx/8xxx).
Budget is reserved for i3 (or whatever clarksdale is called...), replacement for all other dualcores....

And you never seem to get tired of bashing motherboard prices, even before they are launched. Make sure you dont eat those words some day.
Actually, I hope I do have to eat my words on this and much rather be wrong!

No, I don't ever get tired of talking about all kinds of BS being called enthusiast, that's with over-priced hardware of all kinds, not just motherboards. My disgust is in almost anything called enthusiast without enthusiast results. Crap like Killer NICs, Fatality and Xonar Sound cards, RAM that's has about 2% more performance with real world apps but cost 200% more and tons of other CRAP! Also, wayyyyyy too many danged company sales-folks in disguise on this forum (doesn't include you)