I'm planning on building my own gaming pc and was planning on putting in the Xeon 5160, but the only motherboards I could find for the 771 socket were dual sockets and looked like they were for servers or workstations. I'm really not sure which CPU to use, I'm just looking for a high-end chip and willing to spend up to 1.5k USD on it. Anyone have any preferences on chips? I was thinking of using two dual cores, but the ones I would have preferred I could only find boards that were intended for server use and didn't have the 3 PCI-E slots I was looking for. I've never used AMD but have heard that they are better for gaming than Intel, and I might just be persuaded to switch if I'm better informed.

Thank You.

When I started this thread my plan was to ask for input on a motherboard, but it looks like I turned it into a CPU inquiry.