Integrated Chipsets- Which would you use?

[DDad]

Building a couple of business boxes and I'm looking to use some of the integrated Asus socket A boards. The A7S-VM uses the Sis 730s chipset, the A7VL-VM uses the KL-133 (Pro Savage).

Other than that, kind of hard to tell the difference. Which way would you go and why?

 

[Buddha Bart]

Honestly? i810e
Anandtech did a rather deep review and saw that the performace between a celeron and a duron in an intergated enviornment was very slight. You could even use a cheap P3.

bart

 

[DDad]

Well, the problem is that the customer is very "pro-amd"

 

[Buddha Bart]

In that case, mabey just use cheap TNT2-M64 cards?

not many of us around here have bought or bothered with intergrated setups.

bart

 

[Mixxen]

The image quality on the i810/i815 are pretty much crap. Blurry at resolutions greater than 800x600. And don't expect text to be crispy clear at 85hz.

Since these are probably going to be office app machines, then it will probably be better to get a celeron or duron setup with a matrox G200 or something.

 

[Workin']

I've built a few Duron 750 machines using the Biostar M7VKL KL133 board and they have been pretty impressive machines (for the money). I was a little hesitant at first about the SavagePro graphics, having never seen them, but they look perfectly fine to me. And Duron is much cheaper than Celeron.