It is an average micro ATX board with an integrated graphics adapter. The integrated GMA X4500 is NOT a gaming graphics adapter at all. You can't play anything new on it at an acceptable detail level. Therefore you MUST buy an external PCI Express graphics card to do any kind of serious gaming on this board. RAM is limited to DDR2 800Mhz, not a deal breaker, but just that you know, new high end boards go up to DDR2 1200Mhz or DDR3. It has a Pci Express 1.1 slot (not v2.0 as most new boards have), but thats not going to be a problem, as PCI express 1.1 bandwidth is enough to handle even most of today's high end cards. But it cant do SLI or crossfire (dual graphic cards).