Conroe SFF

[phatfong]

I am probably one of the many that are jumping on the Conroe wagon in the next couple of months. I want to go SFF but am a little clueless about them and intel stuff.

What would be a good chassis and MB for conroe with a highend video card and a SB X-Fi?

The only things I am staying away from are nVidia and DFI products due to the past nF3 and 6800 GT problem with DX9 that did not get fixed for about a year. All other companies are ok with me.

 

[Outrigger]

I am probably one of the many that are jumping on the Conroe wagon in the next couple of months. I want to go SFF but am a little clueless about them and intel stuff.

What would be a good chassis and MB for conroe with a highend video card and a SB X-Fi?

The only things I am staying away from are nVidia and DFI products due to the past nF3 and 6800 GT problem with DX9 that did not get fixed for about a year. All other companies are ok with me.

there are TONS of threads about matx cases and a DEDICATED threat about conroe matx boards.

 

[ScreamingBroccoli]

Well, I'm in the same boat, I'm building a conroe mATX rig for college. I'm going to use a Microfly case, but there really isn't too much info on the boards that will be available yet. I think we are just gonna have to wait that one out.

 

[Dillusion]

we dont yet know what many of the q965 matx boards will look like so we cant be sure of slot configs. i DO know we will see them by august. its safe to assume that at least one or two manu's will have 2 available pci slots

 

[ToastMaster]

we dont yet know what many of the q965 matx boards will look like so we cant be sure of slot configs. i DO know we will see them by august. its safe to assume that at least one or two manu's will have 2 available pci slots

Anandtech actually recently had a report on some of the more interesting motherboards they looked at at Computex, and a number of them were Conroe-supporting mATX boards, including at least one Q965 board.

Gigabyte GA-965QM-S2

Has the ICH8 chipset too.