AMD Phenom II x6 ???

The intel board looks awesome, but overkill. Like I said, P6T.

That AMD board is 890GX. You will do better with a 790FX board, such as 790FX-GD70, M4A79T deluxe, Crosshair III formula. The first two are really your better option though, since they have more than two x16 2.0 slots.
 
Why would the older 790FX board be better than the new 890GX?

They support x16/x16 crossfire, and there are more than two x16 slots, which would be good if he goes with HD 5850 Xfire as I suggested, so there is room to upgrade.

Right now, sata III is not used, same with USB 3, though I can see USB 3 becoming big in the next couple years, at which point he could just add a controller.
 
Depends on what games you're playing. Many newer and/or recently updated games actually can use that many threads. ALL Source games can, and almost everyone plays one of those.

I didn't know Source engnes can use more than 4 cores now. I wish game companies were a little more clear about multicore support.
 
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