PC's are expensive

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Andy Tarpinian schreef:
>
>> Looking at:
>>
>> Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5Ghz
>>
>> EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 nForce 780i SLI ATX
>>
>> EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB
>>
>> Ok so I'm not exactly going frugal here :) Thoughts?
>
> Yes: an SLI motherboard is useless. By the time you can afford an
> additional video card, Nvidia will have jumped two generations and you
> get a brand new card with twice the performance at about the same  
> amount
> of money as you paid for the old one. The reason to get a new one is  
> to
> save a little bit on power consumption.

this just happened to have SLI on it, it does not seem like you are  
paying for that feature(?), as I have seen a number of boards with SLI  
on them at all different prices. Will have to look more.