One thing you might think about is getting a motherboard that doesn't use electrolytic capacitors. When boards die they usually have popped one or several of those puppies open.
Awhile back there was a case of industrial espionage where a worker for the #1 producer of electrolytic capacitors stole the electrolyte formula and sold it to a competitor. Unknown to him, the copy in the safe was complete except for the preservative. All the caps made by that company had a life of 9 months to a year and a half until the electrolyte broke down, boiled and burst the can. Because these things are a commodity, there is no way to tell where the capacitor is made. These things made their way into computers, graphics cards, televisions, everything imaginable and made people's life miserable for years.
My Gigabyte motherboard uses solid state capacitors, not electrolytic capacitors and has a much longer design life. Although I don't plan on using the thing in 10 years, who knows? And increased reliability is always worthwhile, especially when you don't pay more money to get it.
