What to look for in a motherboard and CPU?

[Mr. tech]

There are soooo many options! What do you look for when buying a motherboard or CPU? What brands are better?

Any suggestions?

 

[Camshaft]

it depends on your budget and what you want to use it for

 

[saltynay]

Intel, asus, abit, Gigabyte are all good motherboard brands and AMD and Intel for Cpu's but it depends on your budget and use???

Matt

 

[Mr. tech]

My budget is around 500-600 AUS which would be around 700-800 US...

I've been looking around and found this set-up. What do you think? Is it all compatible? From what I've read it is but I'm not the smartest when ti comes to computer hardware...

Newegg.com - ASUS P5B Deluxe LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
Newegg.com - CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250820AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Thanks for your help!

 

[Sora]

I suggest a P5B-E instead as its pretty much the same thing for cheaper.

Then for ram that ram is overpriced I think.

go with this stick.
Newegg.com - G.SKILL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Desktop Memory - Retail