Motherboard failed

[AFisher]

So I'm looking to upgrade my MoBo from an lga 1155 i5 chipset to something new and looking for a bit of advice.

In the past I have been partial to Gigabyte and Intel, but have not purchased any real hardware in 5+ years.
What I'm looking for is a board that can support 32+ gigs of ram, ATX (would prefer Micro ATX) and as many PCIe as possible (would prefer them to be x4 or better)

not to concerned with the on board ports there are, I don't need audio, com, or NIC, in my ideal board would be a few USB 3, a couple of SATA 6G a video and a bunch of PCIe 4x

anyways what do you like
oh, I'm using this as a SAN\NAS if it's important

 

[Rand__]

As many PCIe as possible means how many? 5 ? 10?
Xeon e5 can have 5x pcie3 x4 without problem, above that you need dual cpu or AMD

Budget would be interesting too Consumer or server grade?

 

[AFisher]

As many PCIe as possible means how many? 5 ? 10?
Xeon e5 can have 5x pcie3 x4 without problem, above that you need dual cpu or AMD

Budget would be interesting too Consumer or server grade?

As many as possible given the form factor, single CPU and under 200$ or at least as close to 200$ as feasible, but would also need a CPU and memory, I'm trying to stay under 500 total

 

[Rand__]

Current or older tech?

 

[MiniKnight]

Are you looking board only or board plus cpu?

 

[AFisher]

Current or older tech?

I would like to go as current as I can, staying in the intel line

Are you looking board only or board plus cpu?

well, if I go with anything that is not LGA1155 I''l need new chip and memory as well

 

[Tom5051]

Look on ebay for a replacement LGA1155 motherboard, PCIe lanes are limited by the CPU and chipset capabilities.
Otherwise sell your i5 processor and DDR3 memory and buy the best news parts you can afford.