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Best AM2 Matx Board

Originally posted by: Heidfirst
Originally posted by: koolpc
Looking for a good AM2 Matx Motherboard. What are your recommendations?
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to do what?
I bought an abit AN-M2HD & it seems to tick along nicely.
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To fit in my TJ08 case, have good onboard graphics, stable board, DVI. How would you rate the AN-M2HD? I have been looking at that board but was put off by one review saying that it had bad cooling when using onboard graphics! Any issues at all with it?

 
On the NV7050 side, the abit AN-M2HD. On the AMD690G side, the Biostar TA690G. Between the two, we like the Biostar board by the slimmest of margins. Either one will suit your needs fine.
 
Originally posted by: koolpc
To fit in my TJ08 case, have good onboard graphics, stable board, DVI. How would you rate the AN-M2HD? I have been looking at that board but was put off by one review saying that it had bad cooling when using onboard graphics! Any issues at all with it?
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mine is in a TJ08 too, if you are using an aftermarket HSF the drive cage is pretty near so check your dimensions.
DVI is via a bundled HDMI> DVI cable - if you don't need Firewire & HDMI then you can save £10 & get the plain AN-M2 which has DVI on the rear IO.

I've not had any issues (the commonest is probably problems loading the Realtek HD driver due to the MS UAA HD audio bus driver but that's a common issue across lots of boards).
There are barely any problem posts on the abit-USA forum so it seems a pretty solid series.

I'm sure that when nVidia went to a single package from the 2 on 6150 etc. that it didn't help thermals - however,
a) most people don't run HDRIBL on integrated chipsets for 20 minutes
b) a cheap discrete gfx card is still better than integrated

 
Originally posted by: koolpc
To fit in my TJ08 case, have good onboard graphics, stable board, DVI.
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If not overclocking, I'd say any 690G chipset board will do the trick. Don't go with the 690V as IIRC that doesn't have the DVI/HDMI capable output.
 
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