ethugholla, no board out now will support Nehalem. Nehalem has an integrated memory controller all current boards (and the next generation or two of future boards) have memory controllers in the nb. The only way a current board could possibly support it (assuming Nehalem even has the same pin count) would be if the board had a way to disable its onboard memory controller, which is not a feature I have seen on any board. Also Nehalem is a year away (or more), by then you would probably want a new board (as its possible that the whole bios structure will have changed (like with Apples)), plus pcie 2.0 will be in stride and pci should be less important.