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I Need a mico ATX, and your guys help

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drdingo21

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First off im sorry if i posted this in the wrong. Alright now im looking for a Micro ATX motherboard.... i wanna keep it as small as possible so 1 agp, 1-3 pci slots, 1-2 slots for sdram, and what ever is built onboard is fine doesn't really matter. I tried to find somthing like this but i couldn't so im turning to you guys also its gotta support a 1 gig athlon
 
I picked up this Aopen Motherboard for 50 bucks. Its by Aopen, AMD 761 chipset, MATX, REALLLLLY Stable and is pretty fast in my Gateway MATX. Click Here! if you want to purchase one. I really like it because I have a 4X AGP slot (no onboard video) pretty good sound, 3 PCI slots, and clean layout. I put in a Athlon 1.4ghz (overclocking is a NO NO, you just cant overclock this thing, but it is fast just the way it is)
 
You could start searching over here

You first have to limit your search. That's because there's a plethora of mATX mobos out there. You've also got to decide what memory you want to use with it, what chipset, whether you want integrated graphics/sound, etc
 
KGB, it say's AMD 760 chipset. Is that wrong? And does it have a real sound chip, or the southbridge built in sound? That is a sweet price for a DDR Mboard MATX.
 
The PC Chips M810 is a cheap solution, Has:

Support for all socket A Processors up to 1.4ghz, SiS Chipset with Onboard Sound, Graphics & NIC.

3 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR + 2 PC133

Corm
 
Your right Killrose,
I'm sorry it is the 760, so the website is correct. Not the 761 which has a different southbridge. I was thinking of my Athlon Slot A 751 chipset I had before. The sound is what you get AC97 codec integrated into the southbridge. It is pretty good, I played RTCW, DoD, MOH:AA and it the sound was almost as good as my SB Live, but hey invest in good speakers and your set. I was lucky enough to buy it when 256 DDR 2100 was really cheap, so I bought 2 of them and this baby does fly. 😀
 
That's a nice price on the Aopen MK7A. They're asking about twice that price elsewhere. I think maybe they've been a slow seller for Axion, and they're discontinued, so move 'em out.... Supposedly nice boards, Aopen's usually are.

Recently acquired an Epox ep-8khm, haven't assembled the system yet. Somewhere between the pre-production blurbs and the board I have they dropped the high end hardware sound for the ac'97 sound- bummer. An Alpha 8045 will fit, though, if you trim off one corner (2 pins, 1 fan mount hole) to clear a capacitor by the memory slots....

The Aopen was my alternate choice, but I wasn't sure if I could flash the bios for an XP processor with a XP processor, if that makes sense....
 
If you're not in the US, you can get a mATX version of MSI's nforce board. Probably the best built-on stuff there is.

It's not available here though, and technically I don't think it's supposed to be available to end users anywhere, but people are selling them all over the place overseas apparently.



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Stangely, LAST NIGHT I built a machine with a uATX mobo which takes Athlons all the way up to 2000+, has one 4x AGP and 3 PCI. It also has built in audio with 4 speaker output. It's close to what you want... but not a match since it is a DDR mobo.

It's an Epox EP-8KHM. Some of the features:

KT266A Chipset
2 DDR DIMM slots
3 USB Headers (one connected to ATX Sheild output)
WOL
Hardware Monitoring
Overclockability in BIOS (100-250 in 1 MHz increment)
I think voltage adjustment (I don't have the machine hooked up at the moment to check)
2 ATA/66/100 IDE Ports

Two things I found VERY interesting that I've not seen on any other motherboard (though it may be there)...
  • The first is something they are calling "Hardware Magic". It's not that magic, but it is cool... when you boot up, across the bottom of the screen (all the way across) and taking about the first 2" above the BIOS info, is a listing of all of you hardware monitoring stuff! Temps, Fan Speeds (live... with speeds changing), Voltages... all there on the POST screen without having to go into the BIOS to look at "System Health" Screen. Very handy.
  • The second thing I haven't been able to test out yet, but it looks VERY cool. When booting, you get the message about hitting delete to go into setup, but there is a second message that says to hit Alt-F2 to start Award Flash! I haven't tried it all the way yet, but when I hit the combo, the screen reported "now decompressing AWDFLASH from BIOS"... a few second later my floppy started to be accessed. I should have taken the time to look carefully at the screen (it was about 1AM) before I rebooted, but I would swear it said "Boot Disk Creation Failure" or something like that. If this actually MAKES a boot disk and loads AWDFLASH onto it for you... man is that cool or what?

Anyway... the board doesn't specifically meet your criteria because it is DDR, but it seems like such a nice (and VERY new) board that I thought I'd share my experience.

Take Care,

Joe
 


<< Recently acquired an Epox ep-8khm, haven't assembled the system yet. Somewhere between the pre-production blurbs and the board I have they dropped the high end hardware sound for the ac'97 sound- bummer. >>



Jhhnn, I didn't know there was originally supposed to be something higher end. What was the original spec on the board? Right now you can use either two or four channel output and it is supposed to support Direct Sound 3d and A3D output (according to the manual). It comes with a program to control the functions (like the fact that for four channel, you have to switch line-in to rear channel in software) but I haven't loaded it yet.

One negative I have about the board... it is apperently so new that EpoX bearly has anything about the board on their site. They have the page I linked to, but I couldn't find it listed at all when I looked for newer BIOS or even to download drivers. I went to C-Media directly to get the drivers for the onboard sound to make sure that I had the latest.

Take care,

Joe
 
I dunno, maybe I'm all wet with that comment about the sound- as I said, I haven't had time to get into it. Their original description on the site went on pretty strong about the c media sound, etc, now all it sez is ac'97 codec.

I had originally planned on building a very small quiet box from scratch, but the spouse is forging ahead with plans for the house- painting, floor sanding, carpet and furniture selection, built-in bookcases, Architects, plumbers, excavators, contractors- I've pretty much got a tiger by the tail on other fronts..... Maybe I'll just buy a box and be content with that- at the rate I'm going, I'll be lucky to have it together before it's obsolete.
 
http://www.techsol.ca/fssdkbd_large.htm

Here is another site that makes the medalion computing modules.

Look for wearable computing devices.

This is an interesting topic. This device has usb. You could incorporate a flash drive like the Pen Drive that has portable usb drives the size of a thumb or smaller up to 1 Gig of storage.

You just do not look hard enough.

I don't know if I want to squint at a miniature screen to read what this device is doing. Using a flash drive would allow you to capture data for later use or load/run software. You might get a version of linux small enough to run on this.
 
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