<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have a low powered motherboard, and want to update it to something that will do some heavy transcoding and other bits. I don't see any reason not to use the current case and most of the drives. <br>
<br>I'd like to buy a motherboard, cpu, ram bundle already assembled, (because I am crap at plugging stuff into motherboards - something always seems to break) some computer shops sell them. Computer Broker in ChCh used to do them but they seem to have closed down. <br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Need as many sata ports as possible (6 or possibly 8), multi core cpu (i5/i7?), 4G+ RAM. Bonus if it is very low power.<br>
</blockquote><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><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Steve <br></div></div></div></div>