Server Fail

After its magnificent recent achievement of Mordor, my server has decided it’s had enough. The motherboard, anyway. I am backing everything up as we speak, and I’ll be heading over to Fry’s tomorrow to pick up a new motherboard.

It will be one of these two:

$79 – GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L – Cheap, has most of the ports I will need. Expansion will be limited, and after filling all the PCI-e 1x slots with cheap SATA cards, I’d still be stuck with four drives on a PCI SATA card.

$134 – GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P – More expensive, but has dual gigabit LAN and firewire, which my old board had, and I would miss. Has more on-board SATA ports and a second PCI-e 16x slot, which could house a PCI-e 4x SATA card.

If their website is trustworthy (which is by no means certain), the Fry’s here in Wilsonville has both of these boards at the same price as Newegg. So, which one should I get?