Lemons falls on her face building a computer

[LiNuX]

In regards to motherboards, the 'price' actually says a lot. Since it's housing everything, it doesn't feel right to put a $180 CPU and ~$400 GPU on a $70 mobo. Which means the motherboard is either low-end or outdated.

Intel is more expensive anyway. You could also consider AMD. 90% of the computers I built are AMD (It's usually what I recommend to people). 100% of the machines I've built for myself are AMD. I still have the server I built in 2006? (Or 2007, I don't remember) and it still works.

As for hard drive, cd drives, card readers, they should all use SATA connectors and that's pretty much universal now. (Actually, I haven't installed a card reader in a long time, I'm pretty sure it uses SATA now, I'll check after work).