Hi,
I've been using my E6600 with an ASUS P5WDH board for a while and now, would like to upgrade my CPU to a Q9450. I don't plan to overclock this and don't care much for gaming on the PC. I primarily use my PC for running a SQL database and occasionally for photoshop.
I was hoping that someone here could direct my on what motherboard I could select. (I plan to change to Nehalem when it becomes affordable, but at that time, I would need to swap out the mobo, cpu and probably the memory too)
I primarily need stability with this mobo. I will be using 4x2 GB (Corsair) memory (DDR2-800)
* The board must have an Intel chipset and must support Matrix RAID
* Should have at least 6 SATA ports (almost all recent boards now seem to have that)
* Should have at least 6 USB ports (almost all recent boards now seem to have that)
* Should have firewire header (I want to be able to use my firewire external drive)
* It must have at least one X16 PCIe connector for the one 8800 GT that I use (I will not use 2 GPUs at a time since I don't game much)
I don't care for IDE or Floppy or PS2 connectors
The ASUS/gigabyte boards that I saw on newegg that had these features were the high end boards (> $200) with crossfire support or other features that I don't really care for. I would like to pay $50-$140 for this board.
Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks
I've been using my E6600 with an ASUS P5WDH board for a while and now, would like to upgrade my CPU to a Q9450. I don't plan to overclock this and don't care much for gaming on the PC. I primarily use my PC for running a SQL database and occasionally for photoshop.
I was hoping that someone here could direct my on what motherboard I could select. (I plan to change to Nehalem when it becomes affordable, but at that time, I would need to swap out the mobo, cpu and probably the memory too)
I primarily need stability with this mobo. I will be using 4x2 GB (Corsair) memory (DDR2-800)
* The board must have an Intel chipset and must support Matrix RAID
* Should have at least 6 SATA ports (almost all recent boards now seem to have that)
* Should have at least 6 USB ports (almost all recent boards now seem to have that)
* Should have firewire header (I want to be able to use my firewire external drive)
* It must have at least one X16 PCIe connector for the one 8800 GT that I use (I will not use 2 GPUs at a time since I don't game much)
I don't care for IDE or Floppy or PS2 connectors
The ASUS/gigabyte boards that I saw on newegg that had these features were the high end boards (> $200) with crossfire support or other features that I don't really care for. I would like to pay $50-$140 for this board.
Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks
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