Help finding Motherboard

JayWasTaken

Hey, First time builder here and I'm looking for some support on finding a suitable mobo for the system. At the moment I'm still in the early shopping mode so pretty much everything is up to be tweaked for the most bang for my buck, Newho, Its going to be based off a Core 2 Duo and Geforce 7900gt (single for now but I want the chance to stick in a second 7900gt when i get the cash and/or the next must have AAA title with stupidly high requirements comes out!).The more upgrade options the better!!

Basically a high-end mofo of a mobo.

P.S. here's what I've been looking at critisim welcome I've around €1500 to spend (already have a mouse, keyboard and a dell 2407 wfp hopefully running at 1900 x 1200 sometime soon)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz Socket LGA775, 2MB, BOXED w/fan 229.95

XFX GeForce 7900GT €315.00

Antec Performance One P180 Miditower, Silver Aluminum €126.00

AKASA Powersupply ATX/EPS 12V 550W 80mm Denki Fan, SAPowersupplyn €120.00

Crucial DDR2 PC4200 1024MB CL4 Kit w/two matched DDR2 PC4200 512MB €110.00

Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM €159.95

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM €105.05

NEC DVD-brenner ND-3570 IDE Black OEM DVD+R/+RW/DVD-R/-brennerl layer) €38.01

totaling €1200 so that's €300 for a OS and a mobo

cheers for the help!

Creamy Goodness

http://www.komplett.ie/k/kcp.asp?sku=321781&sku=321779

comparing these two, the p5b deluxe is meant to be the bogs dollocks.


the main differences are

p5b deluxe has 2 gigabit lan connections
p5b deluxe has 2 pci-express slots as opposed to the p5b having 1.
p5b has 3 pci-express x1 slots whereas the deluxe has only 1.

that's about it, buying the p5b will allow you to purchase xp home for €88 aswell.

JayWasTaken

That board is the dogs bollox apart for its lack of crossfire/sli compatibility the second Pci-e (x4) slot is for dual monitor setup's only.

I would be more inclined to something like the ASUS - P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe If only I could find one over here.