Quote Originally Posted by Toritechie View Post
I may go for the i7 930, looks decent, if I can squeeze between 4.2 and 4.5 out of it I will be pleased. It's the chip that replaced the 920? I see there is also a 960, but the difference appears to be only the stock clock on the chip, but double the price.
If you can TRY and find a good used 920 DO, nice CPU and OC's well. Played around a bit last night with the new REIII and 920 and 4.2mhz is a breeze and the voltages are all within spec.(1.28v on the CPU everything else stock) and this rig is on air. It's been crunching WCG at 4.2mhz with the cpu running in the mid 60's. At 4.4ghz I needed 1.3v, which put the temps in the high 60's which I didn't want for a 24/7 cruncher.

Haven't played a lot with the REIII but ME and the memory is what ends holding me back. Couldn't figure out how to slow the RAM down. Sure you can set QPI speed to slow and easy get more, but I figure that's not the best use of that setting for a cruncher.

Since the 1366 came out it has been well know that for your average over clocker pretty much any 1366 board will get you within a couple hundred mhz of each other. So it boils down to your preference's, I bought the REIII because I like Asus boards and wanted to have the toys it offers. BTW the build quality on the board is excellent, no problems what so ever running the latest BIOS.