MoBo Selection Advice

[GoBoks]

Hey guys. I am thinking about getting a new system and I need some advice. I want to get the following components (right balance of cost and performance in my mind):

Intel E6400 or E6600
Nvidia 8800 GTS

As for other needs, I won't run more than one SATA HDD, a couple optical drives and a floppy. PCI slot needs are an SB X-Fi, WiFi Card and another card or two, but I do enjoy having a large complement of slots even if I don't use them.

Otherwise, I don't necessarily need anything fancy. I don't overclock. I don't want any upgradability like SLI or 45nm support (I will probably buy one of those X38's when I need to upgrade any of the parts I am putting in now).

Basically, all I want is something that benchmarks well with those parts without paying a lot for features I'm indifferent about. Any suggestions, including what RAM would go well with the set up?

 

[tet91]

Well it depends on your budget, but me personally with that setup, would get at least 2gb of ddr-800 ram.

If you can afford it go for OCZ or corsair brand. They have the best latencies if you go for their higher end products and they will come with heatsinks on the sticks so they will run nice and cool.

 

[lumper]

look at the asus p5k board, basic, good chipset, ddr2, 1333 support, etc..
if your not going to overclock much or if you are its a decent board, the gigabyte is good also with more features and proven overclockability.

The p35 chipset anyway would be my guess over the 650 or 680i especialy since you dont need sli and its memory controler has been looking good.
Lump