Help me choose motherboard

I'm planning to buy an E8400. I need your opinion on a good motherboard for this CPU. I want that motherboard to support this CPU with its shipped BIOS because i don't have a previous CPU to update it.
I'm thinking of GA-EP35-DS3. What can u say about this motherboard?
Any help would be appreciated.

Did you mean GA-EP35-DS3L or GA-EP35-DS3R by any chance?

Do you need FireWire, eSATA, RAID, 3 (or more) monitors, 4 (or more) hard disks?

The GA-EP35-DS3L will do nicely here.

If you can get the E8400 and overclock it do so. After that, when you have more money, change that 8600GT to an 8800GTS 512MB or a HD 4850. My feeling is that the 8600GT will be the bottleneck.

DS3, no idea.

DS3L, yes, it will work. Here's a quote from newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128337

OK, I figured it out. You're in the UK, and they still have the DS3 there. In the US you can find the DS3L, DS3R, DS3P instead, no DS3. Get the DS3R from here. It's also working with the E8400 from the box.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =MB-135-GI

(For some reason on that site it says DDR3, ignore it, it's just stupidity. It's a DDR2 MB.)

I think they don't release all the same mobos for each country, but that's my guess.

All right, look here:
http://www.giga-byte.com/Products/ [...] =2741,2743

For 7 quid more, the DS3R adds 2 SATA ports and RAID 5/10. The rest is identical.

Tell you what, if you are sure you'll never need more than 5 HDD and a burner and you don't care about RAID 5 or RAID 10 go for the DS3.

If you are sure you'll never have more than 3 HDD and a burner and you won't care about RAID 0 or 1 either and don't need eSATA, then the DS3L is good too, and it's cheaper than the DS3 and the DS3R.

Is the DS3L good enough or is the DS3R's larger north bridge heatsink really important?

I do plan to OC my chip (a Q6600) but most likely, I'll take the FSB only up to 333 Mhz.. is that something that'd warrant a DS3R instead of a DS3L?

A larger NB heatsink will help overclocking, but 333mhz can be done on crap heatsinks. You can compensate for the small heatsink by blowing a fan onto it.