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I like tha fact that it has three plane jane PCI slotsince I have a variety of PCI cards lying around. I also like that it has onboard video. Do not worry I plane on upgradeing to two SLI cards probably 8600 or 8800 GT's but for the time being this will keep my cost down. Right now I am on a tight budget.So the money I save on the video card will go towards hard drive or Ram. I thought about going with a cheaper board but few of them have a good track record for durability and built in video below this price point. I looked at the 780 chipset models especialy from Gigabyte and their have been an awful lot of DOA's and failure's. They all look great on paper but I do not want to go with anything that is known to have a high failure rate since that just increases your chances of getting a lemon. Really all I am looking for is future upgrade potential like to a quad core and SLI ready and ATX form factor. The on board video is a plus but not an absolute requirment. I am not going to be over clocking so that is not a must. I have not over clocked in a long long time! I figure if I want a faster processor I will just buy a faster processor over clocking seldom pays off in the long run. ASUS,MSI and ASrock are still in the running since I have not yet picked one for sure. ASROCK makes a WiFi board that is loaded with features that one has my interest peaked and it is $10 less then the Biostar but I do not think it has onboard graphics.
I like tha fact that it has three plane jane PCI slotsince I have a variety of PCI cards lying around. I also like that it has onboard video. Do not worry I plane on upgradeing to two SLI cards probably 8600 or 8800 GT's but for the time being this will keep my cost down. Right now I am on a tight budget.So the money I save on the video card will go towards hard drive or Ram. I thought about going with a cheaper board but few of them have a good track record for durability and built in video below this price point. I looked at the 780 chipset models especialy from Gigabyte and their have been an awful lot of DOA's and failure's. They all look great on paper but I do not want to go with anything that is known to have a high failure rate since that just increases your chances of getting a lemon. Really all I am looking for is future upgrade potential like to a quad core and SLI ready and ATX form factor. The on board video is a plus but not an absolute requirment. I am not going to be over clocking so that is not a must. I have not over clocked in a long long time! I figure if I want a faster processor I will just buy a faster processor over clocking seldom pays off in the long run. ASUS,MSI and ASrock are still in the running since I have not yet picked one for sure. ASROCK makes a WiFi board that is loaded with features that one has my interest peaked and it is $10 less then the Biostar but I do not think it has onboard graphics.