content: As long as there are some decent motherboards out in the $50-70 range I would agree. They don't need 12 USB 3 ports and support for 6 drives and 4 video cards; 6 USB (keyboard, mouse, printer, misc), 3 drives (SSD, bulk storage, DVD/Blueray), 1 video card for a budget board would be fine. Paying $200 for the board and memory, then $249 for the processor kind of sucks, I would love to see some cheaper boards and memory so you could get away for ~50-75% of the price of the processor for the other components I'm not expecting top tier highest speed memory for that price but 8GB isn't a huge amount anymore.