I believe there will be a Nehalem Skulltrail variant soon red, so I suggest waiting just a bit more. In the least you will go with a single Nehalem Black Ed. Or such, seeing as Nehalem logically has 8 cores XD (Yes intel is reintroducing hyperthreading on their CSI part). So in the least you'll have the best single package CPU. Or we'll see what the Skulltrail variant looks like. As for the funds, allyuh doh worry, Red could handle heself.