Asus Motherboard

[gmattey]

hi,

i'm looking for a cheapish but good motherboard which is vista ready, it MUST have 2 IDE ports/connectors, couple of sata connectors, ddr2 ram ideally and be able to run athlon dual core processor, ideally on board graphics but not essential...

just wondering if anyone can recommend any motherboard? if not asus then another good brand.

any help appreciated!

 

[paparazi]

Need a little more info really:
AMD or Intel
Integrated graphics or seperate
Full sized ATX board or Micro
Do you intend to use any of your old parts, if so what are they?

Also intended use and budget would be helpful

Martin

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[Scotsdude]

try this....

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=462650

its the Asus M2N4-SLI NF4 SLI

I'm actually looking at it myself


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[carpetbelly]

I can say, I've got that board and it does fine for me

Small upgrade from an XP64 3000 with a GForce6800gt to an AMD X2 4600 with 2 7800gt in SLi. Using my old IDE hard drives for space, got my SATA drives for OS and extra space.

Nice and easy board to work with as well.

 

[JimInKS]

I have used several of these : ASUS M2A-VM
(but not tried them with Vista)
They are nice little boards.
Have good integrated graphics (both digital and analog on board) for about $10 more you can get the version with HDMI output.

But, I don't do anything fancy with them either, no overclocking, gaming, etc.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131172

 

[gmattey]

looks a good board, thanks for the info. Has more or less everything i need apart from onboard graphics. I found one that would be perfect here:

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1418&l1=3&l2=101&l3=324

Asus M2V-MX...2 IDE ports, AMD dual core, DDR2 RAM, onboard graphics...exactly what i need and i can get one for about £35 which is a bargain.

The board which you suggested looks very good but this computer isnt for me, it's for my mother and doesnt want to pay a lot you see and i would have to buy a graphics card for the one you suggested.

I'm just building a basic vista pc for her as her old one is about 5 years old with a AMD Athlon 1500+ processor haha which is crap, it runs vista but is starting to slow down and is going to pack in soon.

New computer i'm building is:

Asus M2V-MX
AMD Dual Core 4200+ Processor
1GB DDR2 667 RAM
Floppy Drive
250GB IDE HDD (From old PC as quite new)
DVD-RW (From old PC as quite new too)

I've managed to use a couple of parts from the old pc as they where only purchased a few months ago, they are IDE and not SATA but for what my mother uses it for she won't notice the difference haha. For all the parts i need including power supply, case etc and the stuff i mentioned above, it will cost about £150-£175 which is quite good and it's not going to be a bad spec PC.

 

[paparazi]

If only you could have got away with two IDE devices you could have something newer/better/faster and more feature packed

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/127074

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[gmattey]

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did you mean me by that comment, just taking? lol

 

[paparazi]

That's been my signiture for over two years and just points out generally to all new uses the ethos of this site.
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[gmattey]

oh i see, didnt realise it was a signature haha silly me.