Okay, building a new rig. Decided on the P965 Intel Chipset (from some awesome advice from Forum posters in the "Custom Built" section! Thanks guys!). I'm down to two motherboards. Not sure where to go..
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
This will support (at least some) Intel Quad CPU's, as I'd kinda to have a little upgrade path.
MSI P965 Platinum LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
No Quad support listed, BUT this won Tom's Editor's Choice Award 3 months ago.
Should I go with the ASUS for the Quad-support (for the future, upgrade-path), or the MSI from the good review on the main site (was the clear winner over the ASUS P5B Deluxe).
Rest of my spec's so far;
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (4-4-4-12)
Thanks everyone!
Michael
ASUS P5B LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
This will support (at least some) Intel Quad CPU's, as I'd kinda to have a little upgrade path.
MSI P965 Platinum LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
No Quad support listed, BUT this won Tom's Editor's Choice Award 3 months ago.
Should I go with the ASUS for the Quad-support (for the future, upgrade-path), or the MSI from the good review on the main site (was the clear winner over the ASUS P5B Deluxe).
Rest of my spec's so far;
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor
EVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4 (4-4-4-12)
Thanks everyone!
Michael