OCaholic reviewed Asrock’s budget X58B-A motherboard you say??

ECS have a mobo with the exact same name.

The Asrock site still only shows the
X58 SuperComputer, X58 Deluxe and the X58 Extreme.

Other X58B-A reviews are at
www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/ecs_x58ba
www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1449
www.legitreviews.com/article/846/1
www.dvhardware.net/review/47130
www.guru3d.com/article/ecs-x58b-a-motherboard--review

And over at the ECS site - The Top-of-the-range Black Series X58B-A “Nehalem” Motherboard

The raptors only make sense in an enthusiasts system where they do not have a SCSI/SAS raid card.

But with SSD's I don't really see the point in those high performance enthusiast SATA drives no more.

ps. we dont care if you made some spelling mistakes!

I made a couple typos.
1. (and you are NOT prepared to go SSD)
2. "Now the raptors have a slightly LOWER access time"
3. Average transfer is actually 210.1 MB/s

Well, I think you are perhaps self aggrandizing when you call yourself a hard drive expert, but I will tell you that Raptors are really overpriced and don't make much sense in any role. You see, if you really need high IOPS (and you are prepared to go SSD) then you'll be getting a 15k SCSI hdd on SAS or fibre.
For normal home use it has come to the point where short stroking nets you all the performance you'll need, if you want the "snapiness" of a low access time you'll go SSD.
My short stroked 2xWD6400AAKS RAID 0(300gb volume) have an access time of 8.9ms, and an average transfer speed of 202.1 MB/s.
Now the raptors still have a slightly slower access time, but they are too close to notice, and who wants to short stroke a drive that is already at best 300gb?

Short stroking a 200e 300GB drive to 50GB is a room temperature IQ idea

Short stroking a Barracuda at 300MB is one thing, but try it against a short stroked Velociraptor at 50 GB and the results would be very different.

My C:\ boot drive uses up only 20 GB of my 50GB Velociraptor partition and it will eat a crappy Barracuda for breakfast. In fact I have a Barracuda 7200.11 in a backup computer and it is molasses in comparison.

Real men use Scythe Orochi's!

funny, the heatsink dimensions in inches are 51.2 x 39.4 x 62.2 inch

no wonder it works so well!!!