Choosing a Motherboard: Budget or Extravagant

Toms Hardware Guide has a great article on selecting a motherboard. They compare a low-end and high-end motherboard from the same company and try to answer the question we all ask:

How does the customer benefit by tripling the money they spend on a motherboard? Do all the add-ons and supplementary components of the premium product actually make sense? What is the difference between these two motherboards in everyday life? Or in other words: Will a typical user really notice any difference at all? Let's find out.

And what was the conclusion? Surprisingly, both motherboards performed about the same on benchmarking testing but the high-end motherboard has more connection and support options. So if you pay for the big-time motherboard, make sure you are going to be using those extra features.