I wanted a durable Motherboard that of course supported the CPU I wanted to use and supported a good amount of high speed memory. So I chose the ultra durable Gigabyte motherboard with the Z390 chipset. It has a m2 slot for my SSD, a high speed gaming LAN device, adequate sound (we almost always use wireless headphones so speaker sound is not really that important) and of course supports PCI express video cards. Bundled with the CPU, this motherboard was $90.