As everything you have on the PC at some point needs the motherboard, you need to consider these components when buying a motherboard. For example, if you have a lot of devices with a PCI interface that you wish to use, there is little point buying a motherboard that only offers you 3 PCI slots. Like wise with memory, you have to make sure that there is enough slots for the amount of memory you have or wish to have and of course the type and speed of memory you wish to use (this is becoming less of a factor as CPU's motherboards and memory tend to be matched in families and need to be upgraded together for the most part)
The motherboard also needs the correct type of interface for your Graphics card, Hard disks and other items as well. You will find that most motherboards offer everything you need however it needs checking on when buying. Its especially important to pay detail to your motherboard if you want to use older components, which a new motherboard may or may not support. Hard drives for example these days use a Serial-ATA connection of some type, if you have a older IDE drive and still wish to use it, you need to make sure that the motherboard has sufficient IDE ports to accommodate your hard drives and CD/DVD drive etc
The major difference between motherboards that support the same CPU is the model of the chipset (more on the chipset later). Different chipsets offer different performance and different features in terms of memory support, AGP port speed, Multiplier numbers, Bus speeds and much more. The chipset is not usually made by the manufacturer of the motherboard so you may find the same chipset on many different motherboards
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