[LAU] Intel I5 motherboards

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   My 5 year old AMD64 machine smoked yesterday so I'm looking to
build something new. On interesting new processor is the Intel I5-661.
I'm wondering whether very many folks are using Intel motherboard in
Linux DAWs? I've not used one before for any reason so it's a new
vendor to me. The model I read about in a test document was the
DH55TC, but I'm partial to the DH55HC as I need more than 1 PCI slot:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121396

   Comments and ideas welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Mark