short question what motherboard to get? for, , ,

hi there,

need help please, i don't know much about pc's and i want to start one from scratch, , it will be used to control

the media for all the house tv , dvd, , music, media library, , etc, , , sending feeds to diffrent computers , tv

screens etc, , around the house all networked by Cat 5 cables


what motherboard is best for that?

Depending on how busy the systems will be (# of people watching different programs, listening to different music), your bottleneck is more likely to be disk I/O.
If you want to build a home file server that won't be used for gaming, consider the Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R LGA 775 Intel G33 Micro ATX:
http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6813128053
It has integrated video, 6 SATA ports, and 3 1394a ports.
Put an e2160 on it, and it should be sufficient. It will fit in a HTPC case too.
If your load will be really heavy, you would probably want to look into a RAID-5 controller.

As he says, the computers actually displaying the video would need better graphics. Which card to get for each one depends in part on how much gaming they will also do. Something good enough for video like a 8600GT will not be good for [high end] gaming, but a card like a 8800GTS will be overkill for video.

nice one jtt283
will be have up to 4 uesers at one time, , , watching or playing different programs or music
sorry did not understand the tech bits e2160, , , bnot familiar with the jargon yet
what about this RAID-5 any more details, , , mose of hardware is going to be paid by the company so price does not matter too much, , well looking for a complete sysytem for about 2500$? need to know what part to get first, ,and add bits it ram etc later, , i am getting a 1 or 2 TB harddrive to store all the data movies etc but that would be external, , i still need to do lots of research, , but your help is very much apreciated

overkiling kiling sounds good to me since i won't be paying for it, might as well get the best, , in future i might give the beast more to do

a quad core, , not sure what that is, but sound good any examples?, ok ok what about the fisrt question , , what is best for motherboard, , wana build a beast that can do what i need it to any ideas?

MB? are u refering to the ram Joe?

folowing Solariscs advise, going for Gigabyte S775 Intel P35 Express ATX Audio Lan motherboard and a Q6600 2.4GHz processor.
still not decided on rest of hardware

thx again Solariscs