Hi, I am looking for a motherboard that has the following features.
1) Micro ATX form factor
2) Supports Intel Pentium Dual Core (E2160) as I plan to overclock it to 3.0GHz. Later down the line I will get a Quad Core for it when they are more affordable.
3) Full PCI Express 2.0 Support.
3) Chipset does not matter as long as I can use an ATI 3870 GPU with it.
4) Cross Fire support would be nice only if the board supports both lanes at x16.
5) Supports 8+GB of Dual Channel DDR2. (DDR3 if possible but not too important at this point)
I have looked everywhere, and have been searching for over a week but have still not found a board yet. I have looked at various different chipsets however they lack certain aspects. I found a DFI board which did not state that it supported an E2160, and also had 2 PCI Express 2.0 ports but running at 8x only. That does not seem to make logical sense and probably would defeat the purpose of CrossFire to begin with. However CrossFire ability is not very important to me as 1 card would suffice. The ability to overclock an E2160 including PCI Express 2.0 with 8+GB of RAM are the most important features I am looking for in a Micro ATX board.
If such a board does not exist, anyone has any ideas whether they will eventually produce one?
Thanks for your support.
1) Micro ATX form factor
2) Supports Intel Pentium Dual Core (E2160) as I plan to overclock it to 3.0GHz. Later down the line I will get a Quad Core for it when they are more affordable.
3) Full PCI Express 2.0 Support.
3) Chipset does not matter as long as I can use an ATI 3870 GPU with it.
4) Cross Fire support would be nice only if the board supports both lanes at x16.
5) Supports 8+GB of Dual Channel DDR2. (DDR3 if possible but not too important at this point)
I have looked everywhere, and have been searching for over a week but have still not found a board yet. I have looked at various different chipsets however they lack certain aspects. I found a DFI board which did not state that it supported an E2160, and also had 2 PCI Express 2.0 ports but running at 8x only. That does not seem to make logical sense and probably would defeat the purpose of CrossFire to begin with. However CrossFire ability is not very important to me as 1 card would suffice. The ability to overclock an E2160 including PCI Express 2.0 with 8+GB of RAM are the most important features I am looking for in a Micro ATX board.
If such a board does not exist, anyone has any ideas whether they will eventually produce one?
Thanks for your support.