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So on the main rig, I do know there are 3 bent pins.. I know one of the bent pins directly relates to if the board will boot with 4 sticks of ram... With it bent, I can't boot more than 2 sticks of RAM (AKA 16GB), it will jot boot and blinks a memory error... After I unmangeled it as best I could, I can boot with all 4 sticks in totaling 32GB of RAM, but there are some stability gremlins running around in the system with random system freezes, some that end up freezing the entire network until the machine is restarted), and some with RAM consumption sitting at 99.9% usage for a while, and then finally locking up when it hits 100%.... So, yea, there are some issues, but this is not a production machine, it's only used as a personal media server... When the machine is running, and behaving 'properly', it's plenty fast, but although it is just a media server, it is also connected to and managing 2 very large 'storage spaces', which seem to be very resource intensive just to boot and manage... There are a lot of variables, and I do know the proper procedure to troubleshoot, and pinpoint whatever the issue is, but truthfully I'm not intrested in going through that process on this project. Hence why I went to the idea of just replacing the board, which will prompt me to do a clean windows install, bla bla bla.. I do not have much experience buying used hardware, but I agree with all of the above, my criteria was a bit to strict... I can learn more about the world of used hardware if there is a perticular board I should consider. I do like the direction everyone went in regarding fixing the current board, but I think I should rephrase the question: If it was 2012/2013, and you already had a 3770k and 32GB of RAM, what mobo would you have gotten? :)

Greetings everyone! The LTT Forums were the first place that came to mind to ask this: I currently have a Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz Ivy Bridge that is running in an Asus P8Z77-V PRO (LGA1155). I'm running 32GB of Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (10-10-10-27) ram. I'd like to replace the motherboard with something as good or better than the current Asus P8Z77-V PRO. Why replace the Mobo? I noticed bent pins on the CPU socket and figured it would be best to replace it. I'm having difficulty finding boards that will use the CPU and the RAM that are still available for purchase. I would prefer NEW compared to used or open box, BUT i do understand that I cant be all too picky. I just really wanted some input as to "the best" board currently available to replace the current motherboard. I'm not sure it makes a difference, as i've not seen a way to run dual CPU's if they aren't Xeons, but I actually have TWO of the above systems, and can use components from both, so that means i have 2 CPUs, 8 sticks of 8GB DDR3 Ram (total of 64GB) and two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 cards. This rig is primarily used as a file server, and video transcoding.