Which motherboard to buy?

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Gamer-girl

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The GEN3 version (first link) has support for PCI-E 3.0 when paired with a Ivy bridge CPU (not released until 2012). It also includes a couple of extra SATA cables if the pictures on newegg are correct.

That gives it extra bandwidth for future graphics cards.

You can decide if the $10 price difference is worth it.

 
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xtreme5

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they both are same in features but gen3 has new PCI-E 3.0 which can need the upcoming cards for their native performance yes you can also used the current cards but you can't get any benefit from i5,i7 with use of PCI-E3.0 because current sandy bridge can't support pci 3.0 so you should be lack of performance with using 3.0.

ivy bridge are the only cpu's that support PCI-E 3.0 fully.
 
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My choice of processor will be Sandy Bridge (i5 2500K). So according to what you guys have said, I should only get the gen3 version if I have a ivy bridge which I won't.

Also, are there any motherboards that I can get a better deal on? I will be having i5 2500k with a radeon 5870 GPU.
 
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xtreme5

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extreme is good enough but if you want more powerful then look at asus p8z68 vpro gen3
 
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It also includes a couple of extra SATA cables if the pictures on newegg are correct.
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