I'd back anything made by EVGA. They have good support and a strong community.

As for the server board vs. normal board from a couple posts back, the main thing is how the board handles the interconnects between the CPU and the PCI-E devices. Most gaming boards are geared to get the maximum bandwidth between the CPU and the graphics cards and will even add additional bridges to allow more than one slot to run full x16. Server boards don't spend the money on that sort of thing and focus on ECC memory, extra memory slots, and that extra CPU slot.

As for Xeon vs normal CPU, only buy the Xeon if you have too, i.e. you are buying one of these: http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...270-WS-W555-A1

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