Robert - I'm so sorry to hear about your wife's illness. The old annoying saying of "at least you have your health" rings so false when you've got it and so true when you don't.

Merc - Aha! One more thing we have in common - banned at HTF. What was your offense? Mine was objecting to threads being deleted that contained anything but praise for the Outlaw 950. I'm guessing that wasn't the problem for you. I noticed as soon as Simon came on board people were getting drop-kicked left and right. I thought Robert was always fair.

One interesting note about the beta-testers though - after the all the rave reviews from the beta testers that many of us were skeptical of (and lost our memberships at HTF because of), it seems strange that neither Merc nor Gene have kept the 950 for their primary system.

Gene has given his 950 to his father, and Merc is actively shopping higher end processors to keep the 950 in a "second system".

I'd be interested to hear if any remaining beta testers are using the 950 as their primary pre/pro?