Yes, but this motherboard, while good for future upgrade for cheap people is also performing slower than nforce3 motherboard. Especially with the PCI-e video card. I seriously think that he should get an AGP only motherboard with either nforce3 or VIA chipset and later, when his videocard wont be fast enough upgrade to a newer motherboard, with newer memory standard and newer CPU and CPU socket. And running the newer non released M2 later with older components might just kill the performance advantage that the M2 may bring. See, most performance gain come with newer memory interface, newer storage interface, improved bandwidth and latency from newer chipset... That's what you want. A ferrari engine, in a chevy cavalier won't mayke it a race car. Yes, it may accelerate faster, because thaere is nothing that could prevent it to perform while going in straight line. But put it on a race track where it has to accelerate, cornering, braking against car that are built for the race will leave you in the dust, even if you have the best engine. Benchmarking is just that. It might give impressive number, but being put at work where HDD, graphic, sound,.. are used at the same time will make it performing no better that the slowest component.
Fact is, I'm pretty sure that this is what he will end up doing. Because, by the time that the x850 wont be able to pull out at least 40 FPS within game at reasonable setting, newer chipset, cpu, ram will be on the market and they wont be costing more than what they cost today.
Building for future is the worst thing to do, because there is always something better at the corner, and you'll end up running fast component on a performance crippled by older tech motherboard, or HDD, or RAM..
Get the best you can afford now, it will last longer, and you'll have more time to save for your next big upgrade.
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