Motherboard upgrade help

[thecoffeeguy]

Looking to upgrade my current motherboard.

Right now, I have a Gigabyte DS3 revision 1.0, running a C2D E6600, not OC'd, with 2gigs of DDR2 800mhz RAM.

I am in the process of planning to upgrade my process and RAM in the coming months, so I thought i'd start shopping for my motherboard now that will still allow me to run my current CPU and memory.

Would like to have SLI capability, because I am purchasing a 24" monitor here for Christmas.

I would like to be able to expand to 8+gigs of memory, as I will be running Vista x64 bit.

Don't need anything over the top. Just a good, stable reliable motherboard. I am vendor neutral.

Appreciate it very much.

 

[NXIL]

Current SLI capable boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...8015%2CN82E16813127022

Note: I have not read reviews closely enough to know whether the older 6XX series SLI chipset is going to be Penryn compatible--I think there are some issues with that, but, I have not kept up on it. I guess if a board fits your price range/requirements, you could look at the compatibility list and see where it stands.

HTH

NXIL

 

[renethx]

Perhaps you will want a Yorkfield processor (45nm quad-core; expected in February-March 2008) and then the 780i/750i chipset motherboards are/will be the only motherboards that support Yorkfield, DDR2 SDRAM and SLI. Right now the eVGA and XFX 780i motherboards are very pricey (> $260). You will see cheaper 780i/750i motherboards in the next couple of months.

The current 680i/650i motherboards do not support Yorkfield.