What MoBo is right for me?(AMD)

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Hi Guys,
I got my new PC so now I want to upgrade the MoBo so it will be nice and easy to do upgrading in the future.
What I want out of it:
- 4-6 RAM Slots for DDR2 and DDR3
- Support for Quad Core(AMD)
- 2 PCI-e Slots

Can be Micro ATX, Mini ATX, Flex ATX, ATX, Extended ATX As these all fit my case:D

My budget it R2000 but willing to go a bit over if it is really worth it!
Thanks
 
If you could get to 2700 the Asus Crosshair II Formula supports 3 PCIe of which 2 can be used at full speed for Sli.

Otherwise the Asus M3N-HT Delux/Hdmi or the Asus M3N-HT Delux/Mempipe. All are very good boards and offer 3 PCIe in the following config as well as onboard graphics should your card fail and need to be returned for warranty. At least you can still use your PC.

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Also RAID 0/1/1+0/5 through 6 SATAII ports.

naughty-boy-sa said:
Hi Guys,
I got my new PC so now I want to upgrade the MoBo so it will be nice and easy to do upgrading in the future.
What I want out of it:
- 4-6 RAM Slots for DDR2 and DDR3
- Support for Quad Core(AMD)
- 2 PCI-e Slots

Can be Micro ATX, Mini ATX, Flex ATX, ATX, Extended ATX As these all fit my case:D

My budget it R2000 but willing to go a bit over if it is really worth it!
Thanks
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SharkBait said:
Yeah, but if your boot drive is going to be a raid setup, you need a stiffy drive. Note that I have one and have read almost all the forums regarding the poor raid support. :mad:
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Not if you use Win7. Boot PC, create RAID container, reboot from DVD, all works without the stiffy nonsense.

Did it 2 days ago and worked perfectly.
 
Yeah, maybe on your mobo, but not with mine. With vista you can also load the driver from the cd and everything load, but upon first boot, it says that the driver isn't digitally signed and you have to load another one... doesn't even get into windows. Have tried other drivers, same thing.
 
SharkBait said:
Yeah, maybe on your mobo, but not with mine. With vista you can also load the driver from the cd and everything load, but upon first boot, it says that the driver isn't digitally signed and you have to load another one... doesn't even get into windows. Have tried other drivers, same thing.
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I'll courier a copy of Win7 64Bit 7068 or 7077 if you'd like to try it, you have to get the most out of your mobo. I didn't have to load any drivers and win7 installed perfectly on a RAID0 container.

What is your RAID chipset?
 
The onboard one of the mobo. And the drives I wanted to use in raid, are the ones you are using now. :D :p
 
@naughty-boy-sa, please note that we did not hijack your thread, we are sorting out your future problems. :D

Juggy, I mean, the drives I sold you, were the ones I used to raid.
 
naughty-boy-sa said:
Hi Guys,
I got my new PC so now I want to upgrade the MoBo so it will be nice and easy to do upgrading in the future.
What I want out of it:
- 4-6 RAM Slots for DDR2 and DDR3
- Support for Quad Core(AMD)
- 2 PCI-e Slots

Can be Micro ATX, Mini ATX, Flex ATX, ATX, Extended ATX As these all fit my case:D

My budget it R2000 but willing to go a bit over if it is really worth it!
Thanks
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You could get something that would suit your needs for quite a bit less than R2000.

Asus M3N72-D ; support 140W Powered CPU , socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 , support PCi-E2.0 SLi , Hybrid SLi , hypertransport 3.0 , 8+2 phase cap-less Power , fanless heatpipe design ; nVidia nForce750a SLi chipset , 4x dual channel DDR2-1066 ( upto 2.5v ) , 6x s-ata2 with raid 0/1/0+1/5/10 , 1 x parallel ata133 , on-board HDMi or DVi VGA output ( HD DVD , Blu-ray 1080p HDCP compliant ) + ieee1394 + Realtek ALC1200 7.1 digital audio with coaxial s/pdif out + gigabit lan + NV firewall ; 2x pci-e (1x) , 2 x Pci , 2 x pci-e 2.0 (16x) ( at 8x+8x ) , atx , 1 x PS2 only for kb
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At about R1550.
 
thanks guys....a bit of thread jacking but it is OK!
Postman Pots one seems to be the best so far!
 
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