abferm Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Hey, anyone have any suggestions for a decent motherboard that wont put me over my budget. I plan to run Windows 7 64-bit on it. The machine will be doing a little bit of everything. Requirements: support 16 GB RAM support AM2+ processor multiple pci slots ATX form factor < $90 including shipping if it can be helped. Input would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 This is the board I have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394&cm_re=GA-MA785GM-US2H-_-13-128-394-_-Product I currently have 16GB of ram in it, with an AMD Phenom II X6 3.2GHZ processor. Has only one PCI-e slot, but my graphics card is beefy enough I don't need multiple GPU's (ATI HD5770). Pleanty of SATA connections available as well as e-sata on the rear of the board. You could easily do a software raid with no issue. If you wanted to use the PCI-e slot for something like a high bandwidth raid or USB 3.0 cards, you're still ok, because it has a really good ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU onboard that served me well over a year until I upgraded the PSU, CPU and GPU. The only thing I had to do was update the bios to support the 6-core CPU, and that only took like a minute running their utility from within windows itself. A nice feature since I don't have a floppy drive. It also has a dual bios as well as the capability to cache to disk, so if something goes foobar on one bios for any reason, you have a backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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