mgunstudios, that is rediculous. they the speed and capacity of every component will have an effect of how much you can have open and simultainously running. according to your way of looking at it their is alot missing, like how many cores your cpu should have, or was front side bus speed or the size of the cache on the cpu, or even the clock speed of your ram, or if the ram is ddr2 or ddr3. also youre forgetting things like how you have your page file set, and what OS your running, how big the cache on the hard drive is, or if you use AMD or Intel based systems, or if video is borrowing system ram, etc etc etc.
bottomline is that the computer will only be as good as its weakest link, its about how all the components work TOGETHER. and yes ASUS boards are good, so are MSI and Gigabyte from my experience.