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Bachanus
12-03-2004, 05:59 PM
What are some key points to look for in a decent motherboard?

Rooster
12-03-2004, 06:32 PM
Depends completely on what you want.

What CPU socket?
What chipset?
Firewire?
SATA?
SATA RAID?
IDE RAID?
onboard video? (blech)
DDR-2 or DDR?
Plan on overclocking? If so, there's LOTS of little differences in boards.
PCI Express?
How many memory slots?