That memory says it is a quad channel kit.

I dont know much about memory past dual channel but that looks a bit off as the board you are looking at says dual channel. I don't really know if that affects anything but do make sure before hitting buy.

BTW what on earth do you need such an expensive mobo for anyway?

Can you actually get 8GB sticks? I've not been able to track down any non-ECC ones. And I've never found any in Iceland nor Denmark.

Seriously?

Well the CPU can turbo up to like 3.9 I think. All I am playing is EVE - will try out TOR eventually.

I have a 360 for everything else :)

That motherboard is cheap. And quad channel is for the new chipset and extreme chips coming out. Since it's 4 sticks of the same stuff, it will work as dual channel too.

Compared to what? What on it warrants such a spending of funds?

also...I did a test and was able to run and tab between 35 eve clients on 16Gb ...but again thats bit overkill

Yes now it is no wonder you found 184 USD to be cheap.

I really REALLY do not want to see your power bill. It would make baby al gore cry....

I know in the real world you have to pay a bit of a premium on Intel hardware compared to AMD. Yet I seriously find it difficult to justify 184 just to gain access to a 2x 16 PCIe slot layout.

Then again sassums did say he is getting one hell of a discount. I can't argue with that.

What GPU are you getting btw? AMDs 7x series is about to launch. And it features one hell of a power system that idles at less than 10W

The power bill is only bad when I actually push the thing. If I leave it at stock 3.33Ghz with Power Saving crud on, the X5680s and the 2x 5970s don't actually pull a whole lot. The bigger problem is that it has two PSUs, and I need two separate circuits for it, or at least a 15A that it can use exclusively.

So if you plug in a killawatt meter it displays "Yer fraked next bill" Or "The heater says day' took er JOBS!!!" Got it!

Two PSUs... Dear pete....

At the login screen? Otherwise do you seriously have 35 Eve accounts? (And not bot for that matter? j/k )

Yes now it is no wonder you found 184 USD to be cheap.

I really REALLY do not want to see your power bill. It would make baby al gore cry....

I know in the real world you have to pay a bit of a premium on Intel hardware compared to AMD. Yet I seriously find it difficult to justify 184 just to gain access to a 2x 16 PCIe slot layout.

Then again sassums did say he is getting one hell of a discount. I can't argue with that.

What GPU are you getting btw? AMDs 7x series is about to launch. And it features one hell of a power system that idles at less than 10W

Getting this cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115095

And this mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121511&Tpk=DP67BG

all for $250 directly from Intel.

I was sad to see it wasn't one of their new Hexacore CPU's, I will have to wait until they have a summer deal and see if they offer it then. If they do, perhaps I'll buy it, but then again this i7 quad core should be enough.

The other thing that sucks is, if they do offer the hexacore, they need to offer a board with it, because the current bundle I am getting does not support that new CPU.

The board has 1 PCI-E 16.0 slot, or you can use the 2 PCI-E slots at 8.0. Not sure what is better.

and a $550 motherboard? holy crap!

I am against AFK cloaking and I don't think that would be viable anyway as the costs of maintaining such a net of ships would be insane.

If I had a solar roof and bored friends I would dream of running 10 accounts and running incursions just for me... Epic EPIC isk/hr lol...

I'm maintaining healthy 11 acounts..

It wouldn't matter, the 6 core that is, since you'd need a different board altogether. The SB-E 6 Cores are LGA2011. And they use Quad Channel, so the RAM would be ok, but you'd need an X79 Board.

Yes I noticed you mentioned a different board AFTER I replied.

Can you actually get 8GB sticks? I've not been able to track down any non-ECC ones. And I've never found any in Iceland nor Denmark.

You can buy non-ECC 8GB modules straight from one of the manufacturers. Crucial (owned by Micron) sell direct, they ship worldwide too. UK Site and US site.

They also sell a 16GB module and, if you have the money, a 32GB module; but your motherboard needs to support ECC modules for these babies.

I've been using Crucial for over 10 years and (touch wood) have never had to RMA their memory. They have a memory assembly plant here in Scotland, so they are always in stock and delivered next day.