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Nope, not at all.
What really sold me on the board is that fact that it comes with two newer technologies, USB3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s. I expect over the course of the next 5 to 7 years I'll get some HDs or other devices that can take advantage of these.
My purpose is to have something that will be useful and relevant come 2016.
It does have the right kinds of connectors.

Thank you for your input.

They don't look bad. Very similar specs it seems. The ones with the same features do not offer pata connections. Which may be doable, but it would mean I have to buy new optical drives. So, Idk

I will look into those. Thank you
I already have a couple of UPSes
Noted. Thank you.

Thank you for your reply, Katie V.
Thank you for noticing that. I hadn't.

I don't plan on using more than one graphics card at a time. When it's time to upgrade, I'll just get the best single GPU in my budget.
The only other thing I would be likely to put in is possibly a NIC.

There's no waste if there's fun had making it.
As the preacher said of real life:

"... vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

not enough lols for that thought

My experience strongly suggests that brutelock out does scrapperlock when it comes for the need to never slow down and never stop.

Kind of silver agey. I think that's why I like them

I stealth a lot of SFs. Pretty much everyone I can.
I try to be sensitive the fun of the ppl at the door. I let them know that they're free to do as they please in the front. In the 1st Silver Mantis, it's nice if the non-stealther can clear a path for the captured artists.

There are only a few of them where a non-stealther can screw really things up. More often than not, the non-stealther is either able to help significantly or is not even near where the action is. But that's because I only have the vet recall so I don't use any strategies that require recall.

Practice can help a stealther get the job done in less time than 15 minutes. If the mish isn't done much faster by stealthing, then why bother stealthing?

A crew of practiced SF runners, especially ones who have teamed before, is a blast. By trying to cut times, people invent interesting, imho, techniques of aggro management by use of things like the environment, AI manipulation, etc.

Anyway, I find stealthing to be a lot of fun.
I don't see any reason why the non-stealthers on a team should be relegated to thumbsitting. People shouldn't ask that of their teams. I understand asking non-stealthers not to tag along, but there's no reason [usually] that they cant knock some heads.

Yes
Yes
It has made people very rich and very powerful.
It's a lot of fun if you know where to look or enjoy creating missions.
Yes

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