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Originally Posted by LIONSFAN20
I swapped out cases, and I think I will go with the Gigabyte motherboard, I have been using them for years and really like them.
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The Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 doesnt support 2 NVIDIA cards in SLI, only ATI cards in crossfire. And the 2nd PCI slot is only 4x. But a single 570 should be MORE then enough by itself for a while. By the time the 570 shows some age new single cards will be a better buy then getting a second 570 for SLI anyway.
So if your not going SLI with the board your good to go.
Really wish I could help you more but I researched AMD boards for my recent build. My board was $140 but it only exceeded your board by having a few more somewhat useless 6GBs SATA connections and the 2nd PCI slot ran at 8x to your 4x. I wish I got the next step up in boards for $20 more which had a second PCI slot running at 16x or something similar to your board. Ill never need more then two 6GBs SATA connections because I will always have just 2 SATA devices, the DVD drive and Hard drive
EDIT: one more thing. Research the difference between a Intel i7-2600k and a Intel i7-2500k. I ve heard they are similar performance wise in gaming but the Intel i7-2600k shines only during multimedia processing. With $100 between the two research benchmarks and comparisons