Motherboard Madness

[Max Tractor]

The world has gone completely mad, the price of things today are just getting beyond the realms of utter madness,. Today I borked at the £4.65 Boots were charging for a tub of vicks, this evening I continue to bork at this Gigabyte X58 G1 Assassin Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard, http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduc...odid=MB-320-GI £462.98 pence, yes I will say it again £462.98 pence

[Pob255]

It's probably down to the creative labs CA20K2 processor with 64mb of dedicated memory and the Bigfoot Killer 2100 hardware NIC with it's own 1gb of dedicated memory.

Although there's also probably the general high end part markup too (because high end parts are always sold in lower quantities they need a higher markup to make them profitable)


That heatsink is rather funky

[Tonka777]

Nice, very sexy bit of kit!

[Bagnaj97]

Chipset heatsink modeled on what seems to be a loaded AK magazine. Do they do a budget model with a lowly pistol mag of some kind?

[Sputnik]

It looks a work of art, Do my eyes deceive me or are there 4 standard capacitors near the I/O sockets ?

As nice as it looks, I'd not buy one. I look at the screen when I'm using my PC.

[Kalex]

As nice as it is to have a computer which look nice through my side window, I'm not going to pay an extra £300 for a sexy looking motherboard which I'll look at once when I'm building the thing then every so often when I need to change a component...

[Rob_B]

Apart fro the cheesy magazine HS the rest of it does look funky. But it'd never be seen in my PC!

Although 462.98 pence is a bargain

[Sputnik]

I was wrong, All the capacitors for the sound are the normal electrolytic type.

[Max Tractor]

I see them 4 big green caps, wonder why they used them