haha, don't buy CPU's from newegg!
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...ct_id=0346210\
appears its onsale for $179.99. If you have a microcenter intown though, you can pick up an i5 2500k for exactly same price. no such limitation on the i7 950. mail order as you please
(there was also a bundle deal where you can get a high end asus mb with 1tb hitatchi for almost 300 but can find link)
the other things will need more research to answer without me just running my keyboard, but lets not forget that if you ever go for an intel extreme processor, you will be on the 1336 chipset, not the 1156. IDk about you, but I do enjoy hyperthreading that i-7's offer.
from this point, its really all just academic. the test that really matters is to actually get everything up and running and then report what you find to the community!
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