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Hi. I'm looking for a motherboard with the following specifications:

  • Black/red with red LEDs on it
  • Supports RAID
  • Has 2 M.2 connectors
  • Supports 4 slots of DDR4 RAM; 64 GB
  • Supports Skylake (which I can update later for it to support Kaby Lake; 6700K and 7700K)
  • Supports 2 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots to SLI 2 GPUs
  • 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wireless networking
  • ATX
  • Supports 2 RGB LEDs (4-pin, 12V)
  • Costs less than $300, but I'm flexible

I know this is a lot to ask for, but if anyone knows anything that matches this criteria - it would be super helpful!

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Consider something like https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-VIII-HERO-ALPHA/.

 

One can get M.2 ssd up to 2TB so I'm not sure why a second slot is needed. One needs to be careful with motherboards that offer two M.2. The MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK for example, only supports SATA III on one of the M.2.

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1 minute ago, brob said:

Consider something like https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-VIII-HERO-ALPHA/.

 

One can get M.2 ssd up to 2TB so I'm not sure why a second slot is needed. One needs to be careful with motherboards that offer two M.2. The MSI Z170A Gaming M9 ACK for example, only supports SATA III on one of the M.2.

I want to set up a RAID configuration with two 960 PROs. Overkill yes, but I want to do it.

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