Best MoBo without integrated audio?

[barthautala]

I hate the fact that everything is integrated onto the board now. Especially when the video is integrated. So Ive been looking at building a system and all I can come up with now are mother boards that have audio integrated onto them. I dont want that.

I do want - overclocking, support for 45nm chips, support for 8Gb DDR3 RAM, and a whole lotta expansion slots.

What is there available now?

 

[PCD]

Afraid you will have to manufacture one yourself. I suggest buy the MB you like to have, disable sound in th BIOS and install the sound card of your choice.

 

[TSIMonster]

Whats the big deal? Just turn off what you don't want.

 

[barthautala]

Oh........thats kinda what I thought anyways after doing alot of research. I read the newest article about over clocking the quad core and it mentions a few mobos in it. I checked them out. Which one of those is the best? And what would be more advantageous - 8gb of ddr2 or 4 gb of ddr3?

 

[brick88]

well 4 gb of ddr3 might cost a pretty penny. and 8 gb of ddr2 is pretty much overkill. plus either combination would require vista x64. I like the gigabyte ds3r p35 board. its got good support and plenty of features. and i would try and get a g0 revision of the q6600.

 

[dj_taboo]

The ASUS BlitzExtreme doesn't have integrated audio. It has a removable PCI x1 audio card.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/08/01/taking_the_e6750_beyond_4ghz/page3.html
Also, some of the high end DFI boards have a removable "karajin" audio card.

 

[BUFF]

same with abit's AudioMax card

 

[dj_taboo]

same with abit's AudioMax card

Oh yeah! That one too!!
The thing i didn't like about it was that the slot was proprietary.
You couldn't just toss the card and have an extra slot to use.