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bluestreak101

bluestreak101

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Morning!

Im looking at building a new machine and I am having trouble deciding which CPU to go for, I have spec'd myself an AMD one but it is only dual core and I would like to give quad core a go.

My dilema is that I would rather chance buying my first intel as a quad core than get the new phenom as most of you are aware there are some problems with it.

Here's what I have so far:

(BTW this is for a home server so GFX is really only to view the console!)

CPU: Q6600 Retail
HDD: 2 x 160's RAID 0 & 4 x 1TB RAID 5
GFX: Cheapest one going!
RAM: 4GB DDR2 (2 x 2GB OCZ 6400)

My problem is motherboard, I dont know where to start looking really, but obviously needs to support the Q6600, 4GB of RAM, 6 SATAII hard drives

I would have also liked it to have a couple of PCI-X slots but fear these are now pretty much a dead standard as far as desktop computers go.

Can anyone suggest some decent motherboards around the £100-£120 mark?

(on the AMD platform I was looking at I was going to get the M2N32 WS PRO if that gives you an idea of what im after)

Thanks in advance!
 
mp260767 said:
have a look at the abit ip-35 pro, dont think it has the PCI-X slots tho.
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The Asus P5K-WS is the best enthusiast board with a PCI-X slot.

What will this home server be doing? It might be more economical to get an older server or workstation board (or complete rig).

A server board would probably have integrated graphics which would be nice. It'd have more PCI-X slots and would probably cost less. Is a Quad really necessary?
 
Well it will be doing lots of things, File storage, media steaming, remote access, srcds, domain, exchange, web hosting (i think thats all of them) It will be running Windows 2003

I have it all running on a A64 3500+ atm on an A8V and Its not really up to the task.
 
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