Crosshair IV on the bench!

[keithlm]

I was kind of in the same boat as you. Tired of using mid range boards and was waiting for the 890FX's. I'd really love to have a Thuban, but I made the call and the 890FX came first.
Hopefully, in a couple weeks I'll be able to afford an X6.

As for the Crosshair IV, I'm sure you'd love this board seeing as how your coming from the mid range stuff like I did.

I'm sure those CL6 Dominators would ROCK, but $150 is alot of cash to me personally...

You are exactly right. I could have bought a newer high end board about 6 or 9 months ago; but I knew the 890FX was coming. So I waited. Now I don't really want to buy them all at once so I think I will get:

Crosshair IV
Corsair Dominator GT 1600C6 (The $280.00 stuff.)

Then I can wait for a bit to get the X6. If the X6 is as good as people say then the next release (1095T?) will be slightly better.

But then.. can I wait that long? If I can play with the PhII 965 on this new board and make it do new tricks like you have done it will probably be hard to wait. (I bet I can beat every benchmark record I currently have with just the new board.)

NOTE: They are out of Crosshair IV on Newegg... so that will force me to wait at least a bit. Or I might consider the MSI. (AsRock? Probably NOT... reminds me too much like Foxconn... a good board... but bios support as bad as Gigabyte. DANG... makes me remember I have the GA790FX-DS5 sitting in a box. That was supposedly a top-line board until Gigabyte stopped supporting it when the Phenoms were released. I'm almost tempted to pull it out and test it again... but it wasn't totally stable with a PhII 940 so I doubt the 965 would be any better.)