motherboard advice

I have ordered my cpu and Gpu which are The E6600 C2D and a Evga 8800gts video card. I was going to order the Evga 680i motherboard but I'm reading bad things about the 680i chipsets. I would like a motherboard that I can upgrade later to a Quad core if the price comes down. I don't know which board to get at this point. Is there any performance gain or loss between the Nvidia chipsets or Intel. Please advise I need to get a board ASAP ? I don't care about the cost as long as it is a quality board. Thanks

 

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Asus P5W64-WS Pro Intel 975X (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

The motherboard has support for quadcore, its intel too, i dont think there is any performance gain/loss between nvidia and intel chipsets though, this should see you through


Why you getting an 8800GTS and no an 8800GTX?

 

Thought I save a little money and I don't play alot of games nor do I overclock any. The only games I play are Tiger Woods 2007 and a couple other sports games. So you think this board will be ok even though it"s for work stations ?Thanks for the help , I've been to a couple other forums and no one seems to want to help.

 

Check [link=http://www.hardwareforums.com/evaluate-my-x-mas-rig-15897/]this[/link] thread from [link=http://www.hardwareforums.com/evaluate-my-x-mas-rig-15897/#post102781]this[/link] particular post...You will get lots of ideas about ur listed products..

 

After reading about all the problems with the 680I , I'm going to look hard at the Intel chipset boards. Are the any made by ASUS that support SLI and the upgradeability to go Quad core later. Thanks for all the help.

 

The board i linked to in my previous post supported Quad core and SLi, also it was an Intel Motherboard.

 

I'm a little confused about this board , looking at the specs on ASUS web site it says it supports Crossfire. Can the board support Crossfire and SLI because I'm going to be running Nvidia cards ? Foregive me if this is a stupid question but I'm trying to learn as I go. Thanks

 

Ah damnd, another crossfire board, it dident say, i was sure it was SLi though. It will support one Nvidia card, but not 2.

 

For now looks like I'm screwed as to finding a board that will work . Think I'm going to look at AMD and see what I can build from the AM2 plattform. I know it won't be as fast but at least it will be stable.

 

What makes you think Core2Duo wont be stable?

 

I don't have a problem with C2D it's the current motherboards. The main ones I'm talking about is the ones that support Quad core and SLI.

 

Check as many uk websites as you can, C2D is alot better than AMD 64.

 

UK sites won't help me much I'm in the US. Thanks though for the help

 

Ah sorry, i meant US sites then , i forgot to look at the flag

 

Check [link=http://www.hardwareforums.com/good-etailers-us-canada-uk-europe-aus-etc-10157/]this thread[/link] for US sites..

 

Does anyone know anything about this board?Newegg.com - ASUS P5N-E SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

 

This board wont run an 8800GTS or GTX you need each PCI-E Slot to be x16, so if your going to need to look for a board thats SLI were both PCI-E Slots are X16

 

Ok I give up is there a Asus board that supports Quad core and to where I can run just one 8800GTS card . I'm willing to forget about SLI since I don't play alot of games anyway.