MSI 975X Platinum and MSI 975X Platinum PowerUp Edition
 

The original MSI 975X Platinum offers quite a usual (for a top model, of course!) set of peripheral controllers and bundle. There is absolutely nothing outstanding about this motherboard. But the retail price of this model is humane as well (below $200 at the time of this review, while most competing models come at $250-$300). So this motherboard can be a reasonable compromise: there is no [unnecessary] support for DDR2-800; in return, the model has no problems with IDE devices, which is an important issue for many users.