how much are you spending on that micro Chinese x79 mb? given how limited it is. I would not pay more than $100.
if you were going to pay around $180, I would recommend a Lenovo s30 MB like one of these:
Lenovo Thinkstation S30 Motherboard X79 Rev 2.0 E5-2600V2 Compatible + IO-Shield | eBay
get the socrate v2 if you want to be able to use 2011 v2 or get the slightly cheaper v1 if you only want to run 2011 v1. boot block not upgradable.
this mb has proper 8 ram slots and lots of pci e as well as a legacy pci slot. sadly, the pci e slots are not GeForce sli compatible, only quadro sli compatible.
if you were going to pay around $180, I would recommend a Lenovo s30 MB like one of these:
Lenovo Thinkstation S30 Motherboard X79 Rev 2.0 E5-2600V2 Compatible + IO-Shield | eBay
get the socrate v2 if you want to be able to use 2011 v2 or get the slightly cheaper v1 if you only want to run 2011 v1. boot block not upgradable.
this mb has proper 8 ram slots and lots of pci e as well as a legacy pci slot. sadly, the pci e slots are not GeForce sli compatible, only quadro sli compatible.