good on board everything mobo?

[franklinz]

looking at building a cheepo small form amd equiped computer and i need help on finding a good small motherboard that has everything on board (nic, sound, and video)
thanks,
franklinz

[The_Saint]

what about an EPIA-M10000 NEHEMIAH ? 178$ @ Newegg!

or you can lean toward a Shuttle box. It has everything included I believe.

[JPMiller]

If your talking lowend Duron or low XP processor for surfer and casual "gamer" (windows games , tetris and the like) for office use then my personal recomendation is an 810 model from either pc chips or ecs...
http://www.z-buy.com/product.asp?item=mb-pc810
or this with non-upgradeable Duron 1300+
http://store.yahoo.com/newtech/pcchipm8witd.html
I have bought and setup several of these with no problems...my neice plays "Syberia" on hers with no lag or choppiness.
Others will warn you off, but I have had alot of luck with several of these!
The Biostar M7VIG pro is a higher end all-in-one solution.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...fer=pricewatch
Just remember ....shared video = less ram / buy lots!
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I personally would look for something with at least 2 PCI slots and a 4x AGP....people hate it when you tell them they cannot upgrade next year! (sometimes a month later..."oh, I thought I would get more upgradeability for my $300 bucks!!)

[Gait_Keeper]

damn that PC Chips M810 aint too shabby.........

Good one for sure

[jerrygarcia]

I've built a couple on this one from ECS with an on-board processor-Duron.

http://www.ecsusa.com/products/k7som_c.html

The only drawback is no AGP slot. But, for a basic internet and e-mail computer, what else do you need?

[JPMiller]

Ill get flamed for it, but....... I really like these boards!
They are not cutting edge, they dont have much in the way of upgrade potential, they dont even look cool,... (well the duron integrated versions look cool but NOT the plain janes!)...But they run very stabily, they are easy to setup, theyre fairly fast and very reliable.

[jerrygarcia]

No flaming here JP. There are really very few of us in this computer owners world that need our hair on fire from the speed of our machines and what it can do. And those of us here are the ones that can actually push it to the limit and beyond. To the rest of the world, it's just an appliance to look up stuff and to read their boring e-mail.

[JPMiller]

Franklinz...so what exactly is this for?
what processor are you putting on it?
Does it have to be upgradeable?

[Omardeth]

jerry that is SO well put .

[Peter M]

There's a new revision of the M810 out ... with a faster Duron on, and with 256 MBytes of RAM right there on the mainboard too!

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/product/M810Lv90m.html