Motherboard recommendation?

[algae]

Hi all,
Every couple of years I build a new system (gaming) and I'm just about there now. I haven't been keeping up much on hardware and I'm wondering what would be a good price/performance motherboard that will support Core 2 Duo? I usually like to buy at the "sweet spot" price if I can. Not interested in overclocking.
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks
Gary

 

[Atls]

Are you buying on New Egg?

 

[algae]

I'm in Canada. If NewEgg ships to Canada, sure why not?
Thanks
Gary

 

[Randybob]

It depends on the features you want. I'm an NVIDIA man, so I insist on an SLI-capable motherboard. That drives the price of my "sweet spot" up. If you're an ATI guy, a 975X mobo will be just fine for you. If you don't ever want to run dual graphics cards, your "sweet spot" will be considerably lower.

 

[algae]

Which is leading in gaming now?...ATI or Nvidia? My current card is a 7600 GS and I'm happy enough with it.
G.

 

[Randybob]

Technically, NVIDIA is because they have two DirectX 10 cards out while ATI doesn't yet. Of course, they are far from cheap.

 

[algae]

SLI would probably be overkill for me. However it wouldn't hurt to get the SLI board with one video card and perhaps add the second one later? If so do you have a mb recommendation? I'm partial to Asus.
G.

 

[Randybob]

For a value board, I've heard good things about this. On the high end, there is this - not Asus, but highly rated. You'll pay $50-100 more for Asus's competing boards.

note: It seems Asus put out a bad batch of the first board or something over the last 2 weeks. Read the reviews on Newegg.