Need advice: Best motherboard for new build

Hello everyone, I am in the process of putting together a new build and I need your advice on the best motherboard to choose, I am looking to spend less than 266$

Also I wanted advice on which motherboard manufacturer you like more, EVGA or ASUS.

I like EVGA's lifetime warranty, and 24/7 phone support based in the united states and I've had good luck with their graphics cards so what do you think?

Andy advice is greatly appreciated

EVGA's X58 will be the first motherboard they ever made. Everything else they bought. Their first SLI motherboards were made by Jetway, the most recent ones by graphics card maker Palit. All recent motherboards have been nVidia reference designs, which means you could get the same motherboard from other companies. And that means the only benefit of buying EVGA was the lifetime warranty.

I believe BFG had a double-lifetime warranty, but EVGA fans pushed their favorite brand to the front.

Reference motherboards like EVGA's are typically a little behind Asus in features and overclocking. But EVGA's fans won't let you know that.

If you're planning to use EVGA's new X58 motherboard, none of us could take a guess about its capabilities, since EVGA has never made a motherboard until now.

He said he's looking for something under $266, and I doubt the X58 will be under $300.

okies, heres what happened, I bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45T-EXTREME from new egg, this was a ddr3 board, however Newegg sent me a defective used board :-/ and when I RMA'd it they informed me that they had 'deactivated' that item and would no longer be selling it :-( so now I'm trying to figure out which board to buy, I was planning on using a core 2 duo 3.0 ghz wolfdale processor but that's the only component I've really decided on. My limiting factor is that right now I have to be able to buy the motherboard, cpu, ram and possibly PSU upgrade (b/c I only have a 430 watt thermaltake PSU) for less than 500~600 dollars. I wanted a nice mobo because I wanted one that would allow me to upgrade for quite some time to come.

I have never used an ASUS mobo only gigabyte but I kind of want a motherboard that supports sli for future upgrades :-/

any ideas would be greatly appreciated :-)

I was considering waiting for the core i7 debut which is rumored to be November 17th or so but I tend to be a little hesitant to buy first generation anything, I'd rather let other people work out the bugs and wait for the price to drop. Still the core i7 does look pretty nice :-)