most of the time mobo & cpu & ram are paired for life so not much sense trying to get expensive board that can support future features unless you DO upgrade your cpu every few months. just get a mobo that's got features that you can use now (like enough sata port? good layout? oc features etc)

any c2d performance already quite good so what's the point unless you really do processor intensive stuff. 22april price drop normally announcement only, it will take some time for it to trickle down to consumer.

i notice prices of thumb drive have gone up this week.