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Sabin   09-27-2003 at 08:10:20 PM

Hello,

My friend is a poor college student who received an emachines as a gift. Well, he is a civil engineering major and the onboard video just doesn't cut it. He went out and bought a Nvidia 5200 but then realized that he doesn't have an agp slot. Thus, I am looking for a good, inexpensive micro ATX board that has onboard lan, sound and a few pci slots as well. He currently has PC2100 ram and thus he will have to use that for the time and has a celeron at approx 2.2 ghz.

What boards/companys should i look at for this problem?

Thanks in advance.

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Crashman   09-28-2003 at 01:52:24 AM
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I'd recommend the Asus P4P800-VM. It's the Micro ATX version of the popular P4P800. While it has onboard video, it also has an AGP slot and disables onboard video whenever an AGP card is installed.

It supports CPU bus clocks of 100, 133, and 200, which Intel calls 400, 533, and 800. So it has pleanty of compatability for future upgrades. It should be able to operate 2 PC2100 sticks at PC1600 speed in dual-channel mode, for PC3200 bandwidth from the cheaper PC2100 modules, and that would be synchronous to his Celeron's 400 bus.


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