inexpensive all in one board

[THRILLHOv]

Going to a computer show tomorrow morning, going to build my dad a quick replacement for his dead PC. he wants an all in one board and id like to keep the board/chip/fan/memory all under 200 w/ tax I was looking at nforce 2 ultra 400 boards, but i havent kept up with chipsets and im pretty lost. any good suggestions on all in one boards for athlon XP?
im thinking of an athlon xp 2000+ or so
and 256 minnimum DDR
thanks alot.

 

[o1die]

Shuttle makes a pretty good board with dual vga and the nforce2 chipset. I beleive it's the mn31n, but checkout newegg to be sure. I personally wouldn't buy anything at a computer show, due to warranty concerns. I get my stuff at newegg or Fry's electronics. Newegg can get you whatever you want in 4-5 days with standard Fedex super saver.

 

[Iron Woode]

I just bought a cheap MSI KM4ML (KM400 chipset) that works great so far. It supports DDR only and up XP3000+ cpus.

 

[Vette73]

Shuttle MN31N

 

[WobbleWobble]

If you absolutely want to buy the cheapest new computer possible, you can get the ECS K7SOM+ and K7SEM+ with integrated Duron CPU, video and sound.

I've never played with one of those before though 🙂

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Shuttle MN31N

This is the board you want...pick up 256 MB PC3200 (winbond) buffalo RAM, and a AMD AThlon 2500+. At newegg.com this will run you $224 shipped. The MN31N has onboard VGA, onboard LAN, USB 2.0, Soundstorm(i think) sound - which is great - and is still a microATX board. When he wants to upgrade next time, drop another 256 MB PC3200 in and OC the Athlon to 3200+ speeds on stock cooler. Great setup.

 

[THRILLHOv]

thanks alot every one, once again alot of help thats why i love it here