Need a good Mother board (help the noob)

[Vultron]

Im looking for a good, in expensive mother board to go with an intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13ghz processor, 2gbs of ram, and a GeForce 7959GT graphics card.

My main focus is gaming.

 

[medabomb2000]

Have you already purchased any of the hardware that you are planning on placing on this mobo? If so, what are the current specs of the hardware that you have.

 

[Taylor1]

how inexpensive?

 

[muz]

yeah plus you trade price for quality in motherboards mostly

 

[Celegorm]

I know you said inexpensive but i have 2 boards for you. the first one i use and i love it. the only difference between teh two is the second does not ahve a third pci express slot

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188009 $249.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188010 $229.99

they are kinda expensive, but they scream. best buy i have ever made for my computer.

 

[ace777]

My last comp had intel and its already dying Go with AMD this is a sweet inexpensive deal for a dual core AMD:
http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4445366?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
this is what im using in my next comp, its a sweet deal comes with proccessors and is definatly worth your money.

 

[sanka]

I have a E6400 and I bought this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128017

works fine. wish it had a raid controller.

 

[esa193]

wat ever y do dont get a amd there friken prossesors sux
compaird to the intel core 2 and price s way higher to
for mother bord
deff go with the nvidia 680i mother bord
friken is a beast
cna over clock any thing can run quadsli 3 pci exspress slots
up to 8 gigs of ram
this thing wont be outdated for ever
this is acutaly the bord im pickin up for my new build

 

[Celegorm]

right now, stay away from AMD, intel is killing them right now.

 

[DJ-CHRIS1]

right now, stay away from AMD, intel is killing them right now.

Comparable Intel based motherboards are lower quality and far more expensive compared to AMD based motherboards however.

For the same quality / feature set, AMD boards cost me $100CDN vs $150CDN for a crappier intel based board.