Recommend me a good ATX MB to go with i7 950

[dank1983man420]

I'll be picking up an i7 tomorrow, but do not have a good idea of the MB I want to pair with it. I'm just looking for suggestions from current i7 owners on good MB's that support the following:

Rest of the system to go with it:​

PSU: Coolermaster 1000W PSU (hsve already)
GPU: 2 x GTX460 1 GB GPU's (on way)
RAM: 6 GB of RAM to start, 12 when done ( need to research after MB decision)
CPU: I7 950
CPU HEATSINK: Haven't decided on air or water yet
CASE: Using the HAF932 and putting old build into a new HTPC case
HDD: 1 60 GB SSD and 2 750GB 7200.12 in RAID 0 ( already have)

All of the little things like the DVD drive and wireless stuff are all taken care of.

OTHER INFO​

I am looking to spend no more than $250 hopefully. I need at least 2 PCI-E 16 slots ,but prefer 3 or more for folding reasons.
USB 3.0 and SATA 6 GB preferred
Yes, I will do some mild OC'ing on it
Need ATX sised MB
integrated gpu and sound not important at all

 

[Deleted member 74752]

Using this one atm in my rig but you probably wouldnt consider a micro... EVGA 121-BL-E756-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58 Micro ATX S...

Maybe? http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=131-GT-E767-TR&family=Motherboard Family&series=Intel X58 Series Family&sw=5 (Evga is the only brand I have ever used for X58 and I will only vouch for same)

 

[Kantastic]

Gigabyte has pretty much dominated the X58 platform, so I would recommend any of their boards. Asus has a couple of good ones, like their ASUS P6X58D-E, which looks like it would fit your needs perfectly.

 

[fusionblu]

I would recommend either a Gigabyte Motherboard or may be a cheaper EVGA Motherboard like this one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-026-EA&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

There again you could go for a UD5 which is cheaper and older than the EVGA Motherboard I brought up, but looks to be better built in my opinion:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-236-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

As for RAM I would go for this as... well I using it and it is probably as good as it gets with using 1600MHz RAM:
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR3+Tri-Channel+-+PC3-12800/Mushkin+6GB+%283x2GB%29+DDR3+PC3-12800+6-8-6-24+Ridgeback+-+998826+?productId=41788

 

[dank1983man420]

I would recommend either a Gigabyte Motherboard or may be a cheaper EVGA Motherboard like this one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-026-EA&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

There again you could go for a UD5 which is cheaper and older than the EVGA Motherboard I brought up, but looks to be better built in my opinion:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-236-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1692

As for RAM I would go for this as... well I using it and it is probably as good as it gets with using 1600MHz RAM:
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/DDR3+Tri-Channel+-+PC3-12800/Mushkin+6GB+%283x2GB%29+DDR3+PC3-12800+6-8-6-24+Ridgeback+-+998826+?productId=41788

I am seriously eyeballing that gigabyte. Going to search prices online for it

Gigabyte has pretty much dominated the X58 platform, so I would recommend any of their boards. Asus has a couple of good ones, like their ASUS P6X58D-E, which looks like it would fit your needs perfectly.

I Saw this MSI at the egg. It almost sounds too good to be true. I am kind of skeptical on it. If it did work, i'd be putting 6 gtx460's on it though for foldinghttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130289&cm_re=big_bang-_-13-130-289-_-Product There is actually a refurb for 230 shipped too.

That MSI and gigabyte are the only 2 MB's I can find that meet what I need (except the MSI doesn't have a pci slot).

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

P6X58D-E

+1
I love those things.

 

[n-ster]

If you wanna go cheap, I have an Asrock X58 Extreme, with U3S6. Definitively the cheapest way to go if you want USB3/SATAIII and all your minimum requirements

 

[fusionblu]

If you actually want the best from Asrock it would have to be the Extreme6 which is fully equiped with SATA III and USB 3 ports and thanks to it's True 333 chip the motherboard itself does not suffer the current bottlenecks from running the 3 main controllers like other motherboards do at this point; the best part about it is that despite having these great features, not to mention the well layed out 3-way SLI graphics cards slots, it is still a cheap motherboard and in the UK it only costs £182 where the Gigabyte UD7 motherboard costs £270.

Here is a link to see the motherboard:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=X58%20Extreme6

 

[(FIH) The Don]

maybe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...sabertooth_motherboard-_-13-131-665-_-Product should be very nice for the low pricetag

 

[fusionblu]

maybe ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s ... should be very nice for the low pricetag

The one bad thing I've heard about the motherboard is that its graphics cards slots are so close together that they cause air flow problems between two graphics cards; if you are using a single graphics card like a 480 or 580 it would be a good set up (if not it would be perfect), but not with two cards I'm afraid, however, if it wasn't for that one fault it would be a perfectly built motherboard.

 

[dank1983man420]

I pm'd about this one http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=2098574#post2098574 . That one should be just fine I hope. I'm looking at some OCZ 1600 CL6 sets to buy

 

[n-ster]

Definitively the best buy

I have that board (ev 1 though IIRC)

1 negative- it takes out all the challenging in doing 4~4.2 Ghz OCs, as you can do that in 1 boot LOL