Not that it was necessary but what the fuck, you see this nice hardware coming out and you are stuck with 4 cores when you could have 6, and your DDDR2 is something used in the mesozoic era, the motherboards are full of colours and with names inspiring the highest speed achievable...
In few words I am addicted to computers and I actually love to build from scratch a machine: that's what drove me to upgrade my rig (also I didn't want to sell my old stuff for nothing).
Let's have a look at the specs
Motherboard : ASUS M4A89GTD PRO - Motherboard - ATX - AMD 890GX - Socket AM3 - UDMA133, SATA-600 (RAID), eSATA - Gigabit Ethernet - FireWire - video - High Definition Audio (8-channel).
Not the USB3 version: what's the point of paying 20 euro more for a feature I'm not going to use?
CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Six-core Processor - 3.20 GHz, 9 MB Cache, Socket AM3, 125W, 45 nm
RAM : G-Skill Ripjaws 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 PC3 12800 1600MHz
GPU : Gainward GTX 260 1792MB Golden Sample
Cpu Cooler : OCZ Vendetta II
Case : HAF 932
PSU : 800W ORYXX TITAN
HDD : 1 TB Seagate Barracuda and 1 TB Hitachi
Impression so far: can't say I am able to see a significant overall improvement, also being an OC newbie, I am struggling to push the RAM at 1600mhz.
I promised myself not to buy Asus anymore but I gave up to have this new 890 chipset: can't say is a total failure but some disappointments came from the fact that you need to fit the gpu in the second pci-e slot and you need also to fit their card in the other slot to achieve a 16x speed.
