Look for various offerings from EVGA NF6 series. They had their share of problems and most of them are quite stable now. It has just about everything you listed. (you'll need a cable/bracket for eSATA) I especially like the board's layout in that you can plug your video card in any of the 3 PCI-E slots with minimal performance loss (1~2% at most). And even the first PEG slot is positioned a slot lower compared to many P965 style boards. (Modern ATX boards come equipped with 7 slots and a lot of them put the PEG as the top-most slot) With my current configuration (and probably many others'), everything that heats up would be at the top-left corner on, say, with a DS3 style board. Don't get me wrong - I am not downplaying DS3. It's a great board especially for the price. I just wish the board manufacturers could better figure out some better layouts for typical components in enthusiasts' build. (ASUS is good at this but I don't like their boards for different reasons)
The biggest issue at this point with EVGA 680i series for me is the hot-running chipsets, which can be taken care of with after-market HSFs - albeit with extra cost. Other than that, it has native IDE support and Firewire, plenty of PCI-E lanes and SATA ports. Performance is on par with P965/975X. Generally with 2T memory timing, 680i isn't as fast as Intel chipsets when it comes to sheer CPU throughput. But it makes up for that with bandwidth (especially for 3D) and snappy disk controller performance. And if you can get 1T working, it becomes as fast as, or faster than, P965/975X. (but probably not as fast as P35)
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