I'm looking to be building my first PC and the motherboard is the most daunting item so far.
My goal is to put together a high end PC for moderate gaming, graphic design and video editing.
Any help would be really appreciated - some basic criteria :
1. simplicity / reliability. I have to admit i don't know much about installing BIOS chips and whatnot, so the less I have to adjust, tweak, or fix up the better.
2. Supporting Intel Core 2 e6750
3. Overclocking is not a real issue
4. DDR2 800 (seemed fairly standard on most of the mobos I looked at). I just can't afford enough DDR3.
5. SLI is not important, though obviously I would want support for a GPU (probably an 8800gts 640mb)
6. I was thinking of going for the p35 chipset since I have no plans of going SLI - any thoughts?
Thanks!
My goal is to put together a high end PC for moderate gaming, graphic design and video editing.
Any help would be really appreciated - some basic criteria :
1. simplicity / reliability. I have to admit i don't know much about installing BIOS chips and whatnot, so the less I have to adjust, tweak, or fix up the better.
2. Supporting Intel Core 2 e6750
3. Overclocking is not a real issue
4. DDR2 800 (seemed fairly standard on most of the mobos I looked at). I just can't afford enough DDR3.
5. SLI is not important, though obviously I would want support for a GPU (probably an 8800gts 640mb)
6. I was thinking of going for the p35 chipset since I have no plans of going SLI - any thoughts?
Thanks!