I understood vondrashek's opening sentence.
Unfortunately the full stop (period) wasn't just the end of the sentence, it was the end of all my comprehension!

Too bad it is an... ASUS board. Too bad because by the time ASUS will manage to come out for a half decent BIOS for the board they will not be making x86 CPUs anymore.
Just check the avg. number of BIOS revisions for ASUS motherboards. And they usually are not revisions that deal with new processors.

nice ! are those PCIx's x1 or x4 ?

Just read the core i5 review at Anandtech. They've managed to get an early sample like usual:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570

Seems like a Core 2, i7 920 and Phenom II killer. But of course you'd like to stick to your i7 920 if you want the 6-core goodness of Gulftown later without having to change your mobo.

Love that pic of anodized heat sink & silver reflection of pcb. When Hottie(egX58) goes into deep revision, eventually newer starting points emerge thru-out, in sorta Way, as lower number, upgrade. Until Basket is Filled again with latest new standards.Old&New,united.

However, What if your Machine Is Cobol & You want Some AIX. Internationale Biz has solution, plus bunch of other deep penetrations to Virgin Mind:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/

AMD Just Started Research Recruitment on its web site too. just typed in research in search bar. get re search. hehaw.

Remember Money Is Notheing More than very long number string in computers input. Re Search....hummmm....re search.....hummmm
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