theres alot of socket 771 boards that have all the things gamers would want but there so gad damn expensive.. the thing that interests me most is there are tremedous advantages to running 2 physical cpu's vs a multi core cpu. mainly being that intels quads are what some call "fake quads" which isn't meant as an insult, but all current intel quads are 2 dual cores crammed together so they are crippled by communicating with each other over the fsb rather then directly. Nehalem chips at the end of the year correct this problem by putting all cores on a single piece of silicon and giving them a dedicated memory controller, which is what gave the athlon 64 such great performance back in the day. now if your running 2 physical cpu's they act independantly with there own memory controllers, add in 2 xeon quads and your cooking with serious heat.
if only i had $500us for skulltrail.....