Quote Originally Posted by EJOUIE View Post
Things to look for in a motherboard besides price:

Front side bus speed - rate of data transfer from processor to memory and graphics.
Slot types - AGP or PCI express. Depends of which card you want to use.
Expansion slots - PCI slots for additional cards such as sound, or network.
USB - number of ports and locations matching to case
Overclocking - yes.
Maximum amount and type of RAM - for gaming, I would choose speed over quantity with a minimum of 6 gb.
LOL do you live in 2001?

FSB hasn't been a bottle neck since HyperTransport came round
and AGP? Its been dead for years.


He wants to go Intel, So I think a 980X or 2600k will be good for him with either an HD 6870 or 6970 will work well.

we've only just begun to optimize for the 4 cores in a processor with software.

I am pushing him to buy an SSD, you have to have one now these days