seeking hard to find motherboard (for fsx and other purposes)

I currently own a P5Nt deluxe by asus.. i'm searching for a different
motherboard, hopefully one by asus, but not necessarily.. i have some
stiff requirements and these are making it hard to meet the goal..

I need to be able to support two graphics boards in non-sli or non-
crossfire mode, so whether it supports sli or crossfire doesnt matter,
though i'd like to go from a 4850 single slot to 4870 dual slot.. i
just ordered the 4850s.. but i'm thinking the 4870 would be a better
bet (the whole FSX thing).. i'm thinking they'd be better than the
9800GTX, but maybe not the gx2(cant recall the exact name here) etc..

But back to the topic...

I need a board that can take two dual pciex16 2.0 graphic boards that
are dual slot.. also have a pciex4 slot for my raid card, then ontop
of this, also be able to fit one pciex1 (asus xonar audio card) and
one other pci video capture board (and even more ideally, one more
available pciex1 slot)

So :

Pciex16 v2.0 x2 (dual slot)
Pciex4 (1 slot)
Pciex1 (1 slot)
PCI (1 slot)

Essentially to here, this amounts to the equivalent of 7 slots in
itself..

then as a bonus, yet another pciex1, but this is reaching.

It also has to take 1066 ram and fsb max of 1333 and take 45nm q9650
3.0ghz cpu..


I'm having a hard time finding this match, so i could in fact go dual
slot on graphics.. at least, keeping the price at say $250 or less..

Onboard sata only needs to have about 6 on average, though i could get
away with 4 too, plus an esata.

A coax audio out is desirable, though i think the xonar hdav1.3 in
addtion to hdmi does coax out, but i could be wrong.

Any one know of one offhand

Cheers

On Sep 11, 9:34*pm, markm75 <markm...@msn.com> wrote:
> I currently own a P5Nt deluxe by asus.. i'm searching for a different
> motherboard, hopefully one by asus, but not necessarily.. i have some
> stiff requirements and these are making it hard to meet the goal..
>
> I need to be able to support two graphics boards in non-sli or non-
> crossfire mode, so whether it supports sli or crossfire doesnt matter,
> though i'd like to go from a 4850 single slot to 4870 dual slot.. i
> just ordered the 4850s.. but i'm thinking the 4870 would be a better
> bet (the whole FSX thing).. i'm thinking they'd be better than the
> 9800GTX, but maybe not the gx2(cant recall the exact name here) etc..
>
> But back to the topic...
>
> I need a board that can take two dual pciex16 2.0 graphic boards that
> are dual slot.. also have a pciex4 slot for my raid card, then ontop
> of this, also be able to fit one pciex1 (asus xonar audio card) and
> one other pci video capture board (and even more ideally, one more
> available pciex1 slot)
>
> So :
>
> Pciex16 v2.0 x2 (dual slot)
> Pciex4 (1 slot)
> Pciex1 (1 slot)
> PCI (1 slot)
>
> Essentially to here, this amounts to the equivalent of 7 slots in
> itself..
>
> then as a bonus, yet another pciex1, but this is reaching.
>
> It also has to take 1066 ram and fsb max of 1333 and take 45nm q9650
> 3.0ghz cpu..
>
> I'm having a hard time finding this match, so i could in fact go dual
> slot on graphics.. at least, keeping the price at say $250 or less..
>
> Onboard sata only needs to have about 6 on average, though i could get
> away with 4 too, plus an esata.
>
> A coax audio out is desirable, though i think the xonar hdav1.3 in
> addtion to hdmi does coax out, but i could be wrong.
>
> Any one know of one offhand
>
> Cheers

I should add, i did find this maximum extreme board from asus for $349
that just might work, i'm skeptical on the top pciex1 slot, whether it
could handle the xonar hdmi1.3 card or not, its really close to that
cooling block:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131235

The price was also a bit steep

On Sep 11, 10:12*pm, markm75 <markm...@msn.com> wrote:
> On Sep 11, 9:34*pm, markm75 <markm...@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I currently own a P5Nt deluxe by asus.. i'm searching for a different
> > motherboard, hopefully one by asus, but not necessarily.. i have some
> > stiff requirements and these are making it hard to meet the goal..
>
> > I need to be able to support two graphics boards in non-sli or non-
> > crossfire mode, so whether it supports sli or crossfire doesnt matter,
> > though i'd like to go from a 4850 single slot to 4870 dual slot.. i
> > just ordered the 4850s.. but i'm thinking the 4870 would be a better
> > bet (the whole FSX thing).. i'm thinking they'd be better than the
> > 9800GTX, but maybe not the gx2(cant recall the exact name here) etc..
>
> > But back to the topic...
>
> > I need a board that can take two dual pciex16 2.0 graphic boards that
> > are dual slot.. also have a pciex4 slot for my raid card, then ontop
> > of this, also be able to fit one pciex1 (asus xonar audio card) and
> > one other pci video capture board (and even more ideally, one more
> > available pciex1 slot)
>
> > So :
>
> > Pciex16 v2.0 x2 (dual slot)
> > Pciex4 (1 slot)
> > Pciex1 (1 slot)
> > PCI (1 slot)
>
> > Essentially to here, this amounts to the equivalent of 7 slots in
> > itself..
>
> > then as a bonus, yet another pciex1, but this is reaching.
>
> > It also has to take 1066 ram and fsb max of 1333 and take 45nm q9650
> > 3.0ghz cpu..
>
> > I'm having a hard time finding this match, so i could in fact go dual
> > slot on graphics.. at least, keeping the price at say $250 or less..
>
> > Onboard sata only needs to have about 6 on average, though i could get
> > away with 4 too, plus an esata.
>
> > A coax audio out is desirable, though i think the xonar hdav1.3 in
> > addtion to hdmi does coax out, but i could be wrong.
>
> > Any one know of one offhand
>
> > Cheers
>
> I should add, i did find this maximum extreme board from asus for $349
> that just might work, i'm skeptical on the top pciex1 slot, whether it
> could handle the xonar hdmi1.3 card or not, its really close to that
> cooling block:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131235
>
> The price was also a bit steep- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

This doesnt work either, as it requires DDR3, i just bought brand new
8GB of ddr2 1066 too