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RE: The Clarkdale does seem very promising. Aside from the lowered power consumption...

Pentium G6950 would be better than Core i3-530 had it supported SSE4.1. See this review showing CPU-z screen shots of Core i3/i5 and G6950. Also, the GB mobos don't list this CPU in their specs.

GA-H55M-UD2H may be the better option - I have not tested any UD models. GA-H55M-S2H offers a slightly smaller form factor and 2 less RAM slots.

On soundcards, take a look at the system diagram (H55):



Only PCIe 2.0 x16 (i.e. graphics cards) runs off CPU whilst the rest (including PCIe x1) runs off DMI and FDI (for display). I prefer the DMI approach as this offers some isolation from CPU (which would be very busy with resampling) whilst soundcard is streaming.

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