Would work well and is a pretty good price for a very old board that is still new
No there actually is a reason for ivy and sand bridge cpus ,because only on z mobos you can modify the turbo frequency. So he will be able to overclock the cpu up to 4Ghz/4Ghz/4Ghz/4Ghz from 3.2ghz base and 3.6/3.5/3.4/3.4 Ghz turbo.