Choosing a new motherboard, soo many choices

[JamesHillyer]

Hi guys. I was in here earlier asking about an Asus P5N32-E SLI Motherboard, but I have had to make some revisions. I am buying a Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo CPU, have an NVidia 8800GTS, 2gig (2*1024) sticks of DDR2 Ram (800MHz and 5-5-5-12 timings), as well as 2 sata HDDs and a wireless card. The reason I was thinking of the above Asus board was so that I could maybe go to SLI in the future, but now Im not so sure...

I understand I need a socket 775 board, but I have no real idea what the difference is between a P35 and P965, or between a N650i and an N680i when it comes down to performance (will it make much of a difference), etc. The last thing I want to do is buy a crossfire board when I might be planning on NVidia's SLI heh.

So any thoughts you guys could give would be greatly appreciated.

Of the choices, I can choose between the:
Asus P5B series
Asus P5N32-E
Gigabyte GA-965P and GA-35P series

 

[curtains]

well if your looking to SLI in future then that rules out all your intel chip set based boards, intel does not support SLI only crossfire, me personally i think SLI is over rated, but thats me, anyway yea intel chipset doesn't support SLI, I believe the nForce 680i SLI chip set sounds the right chipset for you, I also belive it has the best performance results, but maybe a bit expensive, for performance will probably come down to the overclocking.