[Resolved] Building a PC - Part 2: The Motherboard

[The Hobo]

I'm continuing my quest to build a PC.

As I stated in the first thread (located here), I've put together plenty of PCs in my life, but I've never had to actually pick out and buy the parts myself. They were provided to me.

I've already bought this case, and am planning to buy a new part for it every 2-4 weeks, due to budget constraints.

So now that I've gotten a pretty good idea what kind of power supply I need, I thought I'd start trying to understand motherboards.

I'm looking on www.newegg.com right now, and all of the options and such are quite confusing to me.

So I have a few questions...

[list=1][*]Should I go with an AMD or Intel motherboard? What are the pros and cons of each? What are some good types of motherboards for your recommendation?[*]What are the differences between CPU socket types?[*]What's hard drive ATA and what's good/what isn't?[*]I pretty much have a grasp on the memory differences. I had planned to go with DDR DIMM. Thoughts?[*]What is North Bridge and South Bridge chipset?[*]Onboard LAN, Audio, and Video?[*]Hard drive interface? What's better, IDE or SCSI? Is SCSI just Intel?[*]ATX or MicroATX? I believe my case supports both, but what's the difference?[*]What's RAID?[*]AGP, ISA, PCI, and other slots? Huh?[/list=1]

I really don't understand much of this stuff, so any help you can provide is muchly appreciated.