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Choosing a motherboard

I am thinking of buying an AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz Socket AM3+ processor and a EVGA 2 GB GTX 960 SuperSC graphics card.  Can anybody explain how I choose the right motherboard? Does anybody have any specific motherboard recommendations?  (It has to be less than approximately $80)
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>>   Can anybody explain how I choose the right motherboard?   <<  it depends on the use you want to make of it
for running "normal" applications, like office and mail, the low end systems do well enough; but if you like to do intensive graphic work or video editing, you need more Ram, a faster CPU and board
the highest specs are used mostly for playing games - sadly enough
Agreed.

Your desired graphic card of EVGA 2 GB GTX 960 SuperSC graphics card is pretty expensive which costs around $200 and it is unlikely that you can use it with a motherboard which costs $80.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/c
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Thank you very much for all your comments.  I have learnt something important.  I will begin my search for an appropriate mother board.
>>  I have learnt something important  <<  can you post what that is? Always interesting
This site is great for doing builds:
http://pcpartpicker.com/
 - it has different national sites - see the dropdown at the top - US, CA, UK, OZ, etc

It gives you a pricing chart for your desired components from multiple vendors, so you can see whether you're buying at the top or bottom of the market, and will even email you when a component drops to your chosen price point.  Can save some proper cash on CPUs and graphics cards that way!

And once you choose a component, it will then link to **compatible** parts.
Here's your preferred graphics card -
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-04gp43967kr 
see the links to the left for the mobo options, and also completed builds that others have done.
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Thank you, that's really helpful.
Thank you