Hey all which is the better Mother Board and why? Motherboard 1: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=4351375074&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=52578 Motherboard 2: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-478&depa=0

If you don't need SATA/RAID, I recommend this Shuttle board: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-150-045&depa=0 Otherwise, go with the Asus board over the Gigabyte Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

Whats a SATA/RAID?

You chose 2 boards that support SATA/RAID & don't know what it is? Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

I was recommended both board but not knowing much about mother boards I wanted to ask you experts which is better.

SATA (Serial ATA) is the latest advancement in hard drive interface. To use it, you'd need a SATA hard drive & of course, a motherboard that supports it. It uses a much narrower cable with just 4-wires, compared to the wide 80-wire ribbon cables that you're probably used to. Right now, SATA transfer rates are 150mb/sec, compared to 100mb/sec or 133mb/sec of "normal" PATA (Parallel ATA) IDE hard drives, but that will increase in the future. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/Serial_ATA.html RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. I'm not very familiar with it but it's a way of combining hard drives to improve performance. They're seen by the operating system as one large drive, instead of 2 (or more) separate drives. I could be wrong, but I think it's kinda like dual channel mode for hard drives. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html If the board supports SATA/RAID, then you can combine SATA hard drives for even better performance. If you don't need it or don't intend to use it, there are cheaper boards available, that's why I recommended the Shuttle board - you can get it for about $60 Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB