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Old Jan 18, 2013, 06:30 PM   #59
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As an alternative there is always this: MSI H77MA-G43 LGA 1155 Intel H77 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3....

It's 15 USD more but it gives you two PCI-E 1x slots instead of PCI slots. It offers 4 dimm slots instead of 2 as well. Not that you will be expanding a lot but if this will be a NAS the PCI-E 1x slots makes more sense if you want to add a cheap eSATA card for backups or another NIC in the future or something that could potentially use and utilize the PCI-E 1x slots as opposed to PCI slots. I also like the SATA placement on the MSI board better.
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