[H] Greg >>Asus P9X79 WS

[Winterlight]

I built my new PC around the Asus P9X79 WS you recommended. It is a 
great board, worth every penny. It has every possible thing on it... 
except for ESATA which I need and bought a separate card for. The 
BIOS is great, the USB BIOS flash is great... I used that before I 
installed anything...but I was surprised that there was no Asus 
windows utilities for the board. I did get all the latest drivers for 
the board from the website but I looked around on the CD and didn't 
find anything special. Am I missing something?

I went from a X9650 running at 3.33Ghz  with 16 GB of RAM to this 
4930K  running stock with 32 GB of RAM. Encoding a TS file into a mkv 
file is three times faster . It is very impressive and well worth the 
extra cost of the CPU, and board. Interestingly I paid about the same 
price for the CPU in 08 that I just paid for the 4930K this month. 
The  P9X79 WS  was about a hundred dollars more then my existing ASUS 
Formula Maximus II. But my old setup has performed exemplary for me, 
without a single problem, running five years  24/7 ... and still 
going stable and strong.

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