ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard

[NVIDIAMAN]

Hello, im new so hi everone, I have an empty tower and i was looking at this motherobard, i want to use it for gaming like counter strike source and half life 2, i want to put 3gb ram and a 256 nvidia 8600 video card in it, would this be a good motherboard for me to use for that, im not doing stuff like crysis, just counter strike source, thats it. Would this be a good mother board ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard. Thanks

KIRK

 

[StrangleHold]

If your just starting thats a pretty old motherboard, its socket 370. You would be better off getting a newer board
http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/asus/cusl2c/cusl2cp1.htm

Get a LGA 775 socket with a P31-35 or X38 chipset or even a Nvidia nForce 600-700 series chipset.

 

[NVIDIAMAN]

Ok thanks, ill get a M2N-E 500 series, thanks

KIRK

 

[StrangleHold]

Well the M2N-E is a AMD board, didnt know if you were going with AMD or Intel processor. The first board you had picked was a Intel Board

 

[NVIDIAMAN]

well, it is the same as my dads pc so he has some proccesors i can buy off of him, thanks

KIRK