I'm looking for motherboards that you can just my spare Athlon 2400+ processor and some new memory into and have a full system with graphics, sound, LAN built in. Anybody know of any particularly good solutions for this?
It's gotta be significantly cheaper than buying a motherboard with no video, and adding a cheap but reasonably performing video card. I was thinking of using the integrated Radeon graphics, since I saw good reviews of it recently, but if there's a really cheap board with only integrated sound, getting a cheap grafix card would be an option too.
I'm also looking for really, really, really cheap boards (for a different application) that just give me the cheapest board that will hold an Athlon and have integrated video, to use as network processing nodes. Those have to have integrated video and lan, but it doesn't matter what kind. I'm going to try and stack them without cases, so I don't want to have to use any PCI cards at all.
Big thanks to the community - I'm shopping for them myself in parallel, but I'd bet someone here knows the perfect solution right off. I should note that none of these will be running any games at all. Just Word, Excel, Photoshop.
That's easy... for my money, $58.99 to be exact (Newegg), I'd buy the Asus A7N-266 VM board. I know it's the older nForce chipset and with only single channel memory, but the board is good quality and runs stable. The GeForce2 MX video built in works well for 2D. The FSB support is only up to 266 MHz. though.
Thanks, those are some good options! So far I like the Abit as a cheap board for my parents' PC (might possibly run MS Flight Sim 2004, so it might get an AGP card) and all three of the others are good options for my processing stack. Not sure exactly who AsRock is, though...
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