Hello, I am planning on building a Workstation with an Asus P8B-M motherboard. Reason, I wanted a mATX that supported Xeon. The processor will be Xeon E3-1230 sandy bridge.
Does anyone have experience with this board and can recommend for or against this setup? Any caveats or tweaks to be aware of?
The OS will be Win7 x64.
2x 250 GB Seagate Constellation 2.5 Sata3 drives in onboard Raid 0.
8 GB Crucial ECC unbuffered RAM DDR3 1333
OEM Soundblaster PCI card.
Nvidia NVS 420 PCI-E x16
System Specs |
| Budget:$2000 | VGA:Nvidia NVS 420 PCI-E x16 | Monitor:Dell S2209W x3 |
| MB:Asus P8B-M | OS:Windows 7 x64 Pro | Browser:Mozilla Firefox 4 |
| CPU:Intel Xeon E3-1230 | Sound:Creative Soundblaster PCI OEM | CPU Pps:Workstation |
| Memory:Crucial DDR3 1333 ECC Unbuffered 8GB | PSU:400W | Brand:na |
| HD:Seagate Constellation 250 GB Sata3 x2 | Cooling:PS, 2x Exhaust, 1 side, 2 front from drive cage. | Misc:na |