Note that this monitor is a CCFL LCD, not an LED
The plan is to add another 780 at a later date
lol wtf. Id refrain from buying it on the single premise that they are insulting your intelligence with stupid buzzwords and catchphrases that realistically mean nothing
lol yeah it's very much planted on the dumb side for marketing, I watched a video made by the guys who made it. It was like watching some cheap assed tv commercial that you would see in the wee hours of the morning.
I currently have an Asus board which was another reason I was kinda swayed. I can't seem to find many people singing the praises of the ASRock board either but I'm not sure if it's just fan boys that are hyping up the Hero. I'll probably just go for the Asus in the end unless someone tells me a horror story or six about it.
GameFirst II is a QOS tool that lets you play FPS games at normal latency while torrenting. Intel LAN is superior to boards with broadcom or realtek lan, by a large margin.
The ONLY thing that premium boards have (like the Maximus series) better than standard boards is the onboard sound. You can actually hear the difference but it's nothing a cheap discrete sound card can't fix. Network controllers all have worked flawlessly for me, yes even the shitty Realtek ones. A free license of Kaspersky is nice but any software bundled like Sound Radar and Game First are useless. You can argue that premium boards have better capacitors, mosfets and shit like that but the average user doesn't need all that bling. And besides, unless it significantly impacts frame rate, who cares
They use cheap drives with with diy cases / backplanes and considering they have 27.000 of them, something is working. A 2tb hdd recommended by HP for my 400$ microserver is~600$.
