Hi all. I'm new to LGA775 mobo's and I'm shocked at their prices. Best top rated ones seem to be over $200. The two at motherboards.org that got top ratings (Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe and Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal) are over 200 bucks. The next best is the P5AD2-E Premium, but it too is bit high @~$189, (and I can't find out how it differs from the P5AD2-E Deluxe which is about $165 but still too high).
I've wasted hours on this and I thought I'd just ask here since I'm sure many have already done the looking.
Mobo needs to have two IDE ports, floppy, 3 or more PCI slots, PCI-x16 for video, FireWire, (and good audio and LAN which I assume they all have now). This is for a customer's custom PC and he mainly does digital photography on his PC. Only thing for sure is the video card he wants will be the 6600GT. Stability is more important than being the fastest.
I know what "SLI" stands for, but I don't know if that's only for AMD boards or Intel as well, and I don't think that feature would be necessary. If there are better cheaper AMD platform boards out now, then he's open to that instead of a P4 but the mobo still has to meet what I mentioned above.
Appreciate any recommendations.
Thanks.
I've wasted hours on this and I thought I'd just ask here since I'm sure many have already done the looking.
Mobo needs to have two IDE ports, floppy, 3 or more PCI slots, PCI-x16 for video, FireWire, (and good audio and LAN which I assume they all have now). This is for a customer's custom PC and he mainly does digital photography on his PC. Only thing for sure is the video card he wants will be the 6600GT. Stability is more important than being the fastest.
I know what "SLI" stands for, but I don't know if that's only for AMD boards or Intel as well, and I don't think that feature would be necessary. If there are better cheaper AMD platform boards out now, then he's open to that instead of a P4 but the mobo still has to meet what I mentioned above.
Appreciate any recommendations.
Thanks.