There is also a power supply in the case and i am throwing in 3 motherboards, 1 is an intel board (with cpu) 2 is another intel skt 975 board (which i had my q6600 in) and 3 is an amd 2 board which i used my amd 5000 x2 cpu and later my amd 6500 x2 which has had i updated bios.........all motherboards work great