Ian
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i5 processor
At least two PCIe x16
On board SATA III RAID
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willay
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Gigabyte
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Sam
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Have you given up with the Dell? 
ASRock seem quite good, used a fair few of their boards in systems - both Intel and AMD.
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Dom
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Are you after two 'full-speed' PCI-E x16 slots (x16/x16)? Usually using dual cards, most motherboards will halve the speed on the slots (so x8/x8). Iirc, one of the only boards that doesn't is the Asus Maximus (has 3 x16 slots) but that's pretty pricey.
And from what i believe it's mostly P67/H67/Z68 intel chipsets that offer 6GB/s SATA 3 and even then most H67's only have a pair of SATA 3 ports (plus a few SATA 2 ports) whereas P67/Z68 boards usually have 3+.
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Ian
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Fast as I can for the money on the PCI-E slots. Only doing regular desktop stuff with them so a pair of 8x wouldn't disastrous if that is cheaper.
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Ian
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Remind me which socket I need?
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Ian
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Socket 1155
How do I choose a chipset? Can I not just tell it which slots and RAM I want?
Not bothered P67/H67/etc. I've no idea what that means.
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Ian
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WTF neither Gigabyte nor Asrock allows me to tell it what slots I need.
Why on earth do I need to search by chipset? Not at all important to me. 
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DannyB
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Ring Scan, speak to the men, tell them your requirements and let them pick you one best for your needs.
Add their FB page and ask them on there, they usually answer pretty quickly.
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Ian
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quote:
GIGABYTE engineers have completely re-imagined how users can interact with their BIOS, allowing for a more intuitive user experience. In fact, with a touch screen monitor, GIGABYTE Touch BIOS™ is as easy to use as most apps on your iPhone.
What is going on in the world.
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Ian
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Written to Scan on FB.
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Sam
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ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
http://bit.ly/rpTLT0
Is one board that fits your requirements.
I can do a proper search for you tomorrow morning if you send me a U2U to remind me, and get you prices as well on various options.
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Dom
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Having a quick look, have a look at (cheapest first) -
P67
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 (2x SATA3, 4x SATA2; 2x PCI-E x16 dual = x8/x8) £100
Asus P8P67-M PRO (3x SATA3, 5x SATA2; 3x PCI-E x16 dual = x8/x8 + x4) £130
Asrock P67 Extreme (4x SATA3, 4x SATA2; 3x PCI-E x16 dual = x8/x8 + x8) £150
Asus P67 Sabertooth Intel P67 (4x SATA3, 4x SATA2; 2x PCI-E x16 dual = x8/x8) £155
Z68
Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H (2x SATA3, 4x SATA2; 3x PCI-E x16 dual = x8/x8 + x4) £105
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
http://bit.ly/rpTLT0
Is one board that fits your requirements.
I can do a proper search for you tomorrow morning if you send me a U2U to remind me, and get you prices as well on various options.
Fatal1ty's tend to be around the £200 mark which is a fair amount on a motherboard.
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Sam
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That was just one example as I CBA checking what I can get at the moment due to me requiring sleep shortly.
I don't think he'd be able to get a cheap board anyway for what he wants it for TBH. There's cheaper ones than the one I posted as per your post, obviously.
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Dom
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Cheap 2x PCI-E board and a decent hardware 6GB/s raid card might be another solution.
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Ian
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I owned a suitable RAID card for a week but that didn't work with that Dell board either so it went back.
That was £150 though so worthwhile finding it on board.
My local place has Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 in stock so might go for that.
From what I've read about the video, two slots at x8 will be fast enough.
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Ian
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OK got by new board and case.
Taken the fan off the old computer but where the cooler goes through the board I have just have threads, no way of fixing the cooler to the board.
Nothing to hand has a similar thread.
Guess I'm off to the shop for a new cooler tomorrow
Need one anyway so I can rebuild that Dell up and sell it but could have done with it just working.
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Sam
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Ian you should have just come to me and I would have sorted you out a system that didn't require you spending so much time/money to fuck about with it all 
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Ian
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Got one off my dad but that's a different pitch circle.
Shop will need to order one.
Absolutely the worst computer in the world. Never known hassle like it.
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