i got the SLI version
its a mobo made solely for gaming
it cost me £135 ~ not REALLY expensive, but thats here in the UK from
overclockersUK
~ its got a guru panel to go in a spare CD drive bay so you can overclock your system from it and moitor temperatures etc... along with a cmos reset button on the panel incase you screw up; it rocks. Im getting the rest of the parts next week: gonna get it all up an running then run a few benchmarks (although my CPU sucks eggs compared to the rest of the system...
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