need a good 3600+ motherboard

biostar
tfroce 550 or 7025,7050 all three under 80 bucks

Another vote for the Biostar TForce boards. Reliable, and great bang for the buck. They also have a SLI version for $85 if you need it. Biostar TForce boards come with a great BIOS that gives you many options.

Get my board if he wants CF, the M2N32-SLI if he wants SLI, or a different ASUS if he wants 1 card. Yes, I am officially an ASUS fanboy.

Asus are good mobos, but I too prefer Biostar or DFI for their performance/$ ratio. If he needs VID integrated, than it's Tforce 7050, if he doesn't Tforce 550.

A nice ASUS would be the one based on AMD 690G M2A-VM which can be purchased also with HDMI (if he cares about the blu-ray playback).

DFI gets my vote for just being the best there is

tforce 550 for $60 bones FTW

get the ASUS m2n-sli deluxe .. open box for like $ 79 @newegg.com it came with everything inside!! got my 3600 to 3.0ghz