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I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4. I have two Seagate SATA hard drives and one SATA DVD burner (Lite-On LH-20A1S). The motherboard has 8 SATA connectors - 6 on the ICH9R and 2 on a Gigabyte SATA controller. I plugged the two disk drives into a pair of the ICH9R ports (0 and 1), and the DVD drive...

The GA-P35-DS4 (rev2) has a contradiction. The web site says no parallel on header, but the manual shows it as having parallel and com ports on headers. I'm inclined to believe the manual. The P35-DS4 sounds good, since I would like spend less than the ~~$300 that the X38-DQ6 is going for.

Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'm currently leaning toward the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6. It only has 2 PCI's but it has Firewire, Parallel, and PS2 connectors on-board, so I don't have to add any new boards or adapters. I can live with only two PCI slots - it has 3 PCIE slots in case I need to...

The MSI P6N Platinum, the DFI INFINITY NF650i ULTRA-T2, and the GIGABYTE GA-N650SLI-DS4 do not appear to support DDR2 1066 memory. Other than that, they are fine. With a 1333MHz FSB CPU like the E6850, wouldn't the DDR2 1066 be beneficial for performance?

I'm looking for a motherboard for a machine for use in audio recording. I'm looking for Intel Core2 motherboards with 1066 DDR2 RAM support. I want maximum expansion capability. The primary system requirement is low noise, so no fans on the north or south bridge. It will not be used for...

In the past I have purchased PCP&C Silencer supplies, but they have not really been that quiet. I notices that stock Dell systems are often quieter. I would like to find a high quality PS that is in the range of 400 watts, that is not really expensive. This is for a audio recording studio...

I have seen warnings about 965-based motherboards that are not compatible with Win98/ME. I'm not planning on installing those OS versions, but I do have important utility and image backup programs that need to boot to a DOS environment. Does anybody know exactly what the compatibility issue...