Looking for a motherboard or something....

fliberdygibits

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So I'm building a MINI ITX based system in a little bitty custom case. If I go with AMD I Can use one of their FM2 Trinity based APUs and get multi core with a decent (not fantastic but decent) video card built in. I Don't have the room for video card that is longer than the edge of the motherboard.... so in this regards, the AMD option is a good choice. However, I would RATHER use an Intel CPU but if I go intel and stick the the above limitations I'm left with Intel's crapy built in video. So......

I'm curious if anyone knows of maybe an Intel board.... MINI ITX... that has a discrete class video card built in..... OR know of a video card less than 7 inches long that performs better than AMD's APU Graphics card?

Thanks!
 

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heat is part of the reason I'd prefer an intel CPU..... however this system is going to see some above average gaming action and will be pushing potentially 2 or 3 monitors worth of pixels when doing so. I've seen the Intel HD4000 running some of the games I play and they do alright..... I'm trying to find out if I can do better tho..... thus the post:)