my Corsair Vengeance RAM wouldn't fit on my Asus board with a Hyper 212 Evo in slots 1 and 3, either.

MSI and Gigabyte have always been great.

I've had a Gigabyte mobo in my rig for 3 years now and still going. It's a terrific mobo.

Good luck with your computers future!

Hey, you've got experience, quick question...

Is upgrading my CPU just as simple as buying a new one and swapping them? I can't imagine that I'd need drivers.

ASUS tends to be a little loose with the spec and material.

The reason I am upset with Newegg is that they advertised this as a Socket 1150 compatible.

I need to build a box up, and I'm financially constrained at present.

I'm in no way ready to pitch my i5 2500K chip, because it is phenomenal.

You must match your processor with the socket type the motherboard makes available.

I can't say what you upgrade to without knowing what CPU and socket layout you have.

That helps though! Thanks. My next upgrade will be a SSD from this coming Black Friday sale though.

netbook known to man until I can rebuild my box.

in Raid 10+1.

I was beta testing some software the I did not realize inadvertently, due to flaws, started poling elements and making calls off the dang charts, and it cooked my video card.

Fried box for my troubles.

if you configure one additionally under the Z chipsets that support it!

SSD caching

It depends on the amount of RAM, processor speed, memory and HD speed as to the benefit you get.