<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Hoskin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.hoskin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(160,160,168)">On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 5:01 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:</span></div>
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<span><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br><div>Not sure where to buy pre-assembled motherboards, however I'll recommend the MB I recently put in my fileserver: ASRock B75 Pro3-M. It's a micro ATX board - the case I have will take a full size ATX board but it cuts down the number of usable drive bays. It has 3 SATA3 (6Gbps) and 5 SATA2 (3Gbps) connectors and supports hot plug.<br>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>+1 for a uATX B75 MB. The matching Ivy Bridge Intel CPUs have heaps of grunt for video work. I recently built a machine for a relative with a Gigabyte B75M-D3H uATX board, runs great.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tend to buy Gigabyte boards normally. What sold me on the ASRock this time was the 8 SATA connectors vs 6 in the Gigabtye boards. Plus it had an extra fan header.<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>
Steve <br></div><br></div></div></div>