Need new gaming motherboard

[Atmashine]

My old motherboard burned out on my alienware. I used to build my own, but that was several years ago. Could anyone recommend a good motherboard for gaming? I usually went with asus, but there's so many different types now I have no idea which one to get. I'd need one with a PCI-e and (I'm not sure if this has to do with the motherboard or not)supports a scsi hard drive. Oh ya, a CPU would help too! My RAM should still be working, last I tested it.

[Deja Q]

1. Get a separate scsi card...

Otherwise, the Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L is a good budget board. (If you're into massive overclocking, its 3-phase power regulator may do a disservice at any FSB higher than 400 (so a board with 8-phase regulation would be brill), but otherwise it's solid.

DDR2 is quite common; DDR3 is still too new. DDR is outdated and worthless. But you can get 8GB for RAM for about $200... I recall when 2MB had cost that much...

My setup:

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (the immediate predecessor to the EP35-DS3L. Same hardware, down to the chipset, just a newer revision)
Intel Q6600 running rock solid stable at 8x400 (3.2GHz)
8GB RAM (Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX, at 4-4-4-10 timings but am testing 4-4-3-9 right now -- others had success with 4-4-3-9)
(therefore the FSB/RAM ratio is 1:1 and smoooooooooth)

BFG GeForce GTX260 w/896 RAM, also overclocked a tad (not that it was necessary to do, but rumor on the internet says this thing is overclockable to Heck and back...)

I lost faith in Asus regarding their A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo -- very slow to update BIOS editions and the tech I talked to once had a gerbil where his brain was. He may have had another gerbil in his cranium too...

[Atmashine]

2. Thanks!

The Gigabytes looked nice, I was just too scared to switch brands after all these years. I'll try it out!