Hey Everyone.

Making this quick and snappy because im hoping to purchase this online tommorow. My build pans out like this:

CPU -Intel Q6600
VGA - Palit Super Sonic 9600 GT Overclocked (something cheap until the new cards in July)
Hard Disk Drive - 500GB Seagate
DVD/RW - Standard
Motherboard - MSI P7N Diamond . or . Abit QuadGT X38 (not keen on SLi)
Case - Antec P182
PSU - Antec 850W Quattro
Monitor - 2253BW Samsung

http://www.uabit.com/index.php?opt [...] &model=402
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php [...] incat_no=1

Links above for the motherboards ** Please offer your input

Please offer your input quickly. Especially on Motherboards

Overkill PSU for a single graphics card build. Corsair VX 550W / TX 650W would better fit this system.

If you don't plan to overclock (no aftermarket CPU Cooler) and you don't care about SLI/CF why spend so much on a motherboard? Any P35 board would fit.

X38 is the best current Intel chipset, Abit was great long ago.
They've lost their focus but they are trying to make good products.
ASUS P5E/Gigabyte GA-EX38-DS4 would be better picks.

If you don't want SLI avoid NVIDIA chipsets like the plague until they resolve data corruption issues.

Consider a WD6400AAKS (new platters, higher performance) $110 harddrive instead of the Seagate 500GB.

You didn't state RAM so 4GB (2x2GB modules) DDR2 800MHz (Corsair, Geil, Kingston, Mushkin,...)

For cheap temporary graphics also consider an 8800GTS from ECS (newegg.com - $170).

CPU, VGA, Case, Monitor are good.

No SLI no Crossfire?
Both of those Mbs are overkill.
Go for a P35 Mb and save your self some cash.
Many of the p35s also have manufacture support for FSB400 with nearly the same feature set.

Has anyone got any good suggestions for stable and decent motherboards from the P35 category?

Please list. Thanks