Recommendations for a high-power motherboard

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, December 03, 2010 03:33 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I'm constructing a wish list of my next round of purchases to upgrade
> my home PC.
>
> Any recommendations for a dual-socket (prefer AMD) server-strength
> motherboard?  I'm thinking of getting two X4 or X6 CPUs and a lot of
> memory (8+GB).  i7s are also possible (but WAY more expensive, hence
> the "prefer AMD").
>

I would recommend Supermicro AMD boards. If you have high bandwidth 
needs, go for a dual SR5690 chipset board perhaps like this one. 
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron2000/SR56x0/H8DAi_-F.cfm

OH...hang on a minute...you're looking for boards that take Phenoms?

Sorry, I don't think there are any dual socket AM2/AM3 motherboards out 
there.