Best bang for the buck AM2+ mobo

[vectorm12]

I've got an old Athlon X2 4200+ S939 system I was thinking of giving a little boost in performance.

So what I was planning on doing was getting a Phenom II x4 and a decent AM2+ mobo for this system and now I am looking for a recommendation.

My requirements are as follows:

1. I perfer ASUS or Gigabyte but I'm willing to look at others if they come well recommended.

2. SLI Support I've currently got two 8800GTXs not doing much good with the 4200+ which I still want to be able to use in the new system.

3. Hardware RAID 0 support (preferably one that isn't a "bushog" like the controller on the current ASUS A8N32-SLi Deluxe which causes sound to be "choppy")

4. Some overclocking potential would be nice but I'm not gonna spend hours on overclocking a secondary system

If you have any ideas about what I should be looking at I would appreciate it greatly.

 

[IH8U]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131367
$135 ASUS M4N72-E (I have this board now, very nice, tho a little picky on RAM. G.Skill, and Geil work well)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131343
$190 ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131292
$230 ASUS Crosshair II

Not many options for SLI with an AMD board. You have the ASUS 750a, or the ASUS 780a, and lastly the Crosshair 2.

 

[vectorm12]

What about a C2D/Q alternative? Same requirements ofc, seems to be quite scares with alternatives there as well considering SLi

 

[gkay09]

^ Well its the same even for the C2D/Q 750i, 780i, 790i...

 

[vectorm12]

yeah I thought as much, was hoping there would be some intel based board that would have been an option.

 

[dokk2]

Well ,,I am presently pushing an AMD 7850 on a ASUS M2N-E mobo and am thinking of upgrading the mobo in the near future and so have been snooping around as it were ,,and,,for my needs the best mobo that I have looked at so far has been the Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P..
As I tend to buy only black edition AMD cpu's ,,,, lazy man's overclocking...
Plus,and this is a biggie for me ,,is the location of the floppy connector,a lot of mobo's have said connector way down below the last pci connector not good in a server case....

 

[vectorm12]

I don't really care what CPU I put in the machine if it's a AMD or Intel or however a quad is probably the best bet as I would be using this machine to transcode videofiles on the side of my main system. About selling the GTXs it's not a bad idea however I wonder if I can really get 100$ a piece for them even on eBay, is there anything special about those cards I can't remember?