Asus P7H55-M

It may not have fancy useful new features like USB3, but the P7H55-M does have everything you need to form the basis for an excellent PC. Intel’s new Sandy Bridge codenamed processors may be on the horizon, but manufacturers tell us that motherboard prices are likely to be stratospheric on launch, so you’ll be in for a fairly long wait if you want to build a new low-cost PC using the new chips.