im planning to buy a new pc and i decided to buy a motherboard with built in vga/svga card

is built in vga card good for gaming? for 3d games i'll put 3 gb ram

any suggestions?

Onboard video is terrible for games. You should defiantly pick up a dedicated card. What components have you picked out so far for the computer? Budget? Primary uses?

We'd love to help with some more info.

+1 integrated graphics = useless for gaming.

No.
Also you do not need more than 2GB of ram if you use XP as an OS.

The last systems I built use a $100 AMD 6000+ dual core with 2GB of RAM and a fixed 2GB of page file with XP Home OS.

I run 4 security programs (one blocks 1,169,125,052 IP #'s from my custom block list),run 10 torrent files and play Frontlines:Fule of War all at the same time and only use 46% of my -physical- RAM.

See my forum profile for my older (3 year old) systems (7) that I have for my game LAN. They are OC'ed 50% on air and stock volts.

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Asus M2NPV-MX mboard
amd AM2 Athlon x2 4200
3 gb ram ddr2

$510 usd my budget for this? i'll just use it for games. ill have some other parts so my only problem is the mainboard,processor and vga

any suggestions

dont get a board with built in graphics if you want to game with the new games. try this

Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core $130.00
ASUS P5K SE EPU LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard $90.00
ATI 4850 Graphics card $189.00
That comes to 409. and will have a good system for gaming

I've got a GA-M750SLI-DS4 board it it works great. Its like $140, which is pretty good for a gaming board. You should check that out if your on an AMD platform.

how about NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI MCP are they good in motherboads industry and gaming industry?

amd or intel which is good when it comes to gaming?