looking for cheapest S754 board with onboard video

[imported_itr]

 

[imported_killuminati]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130513

Peace & ciao !!!

 

[Peter]

I love it when peole evangelize rather than answer questions. He said CHEAPEST.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813185057

That'll be $30 less than the above recommendation.

One caveat (like the review say): It'll need the latest BIOS to support 64-bit Semprons.

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWeb/Downlo...ios&DetailDesc=M861G&MenuID=35&LanID=0

 

[imported_itr]

looks like they're mostly micro atx boards.

 

[Peter]

Yes. That goes with the "cheap" theme. How many PCI cards are going into those cheap machines? None, usually. The mATX form factor lets you use smaller cases, and if you're pairing the integrated graphics with a Sempron processor, you can do with a 150 to 200 Watt power supply as well.

 

[justly]

Peter is on the ball, he gave you exactly what you asked for and then followed up with an explanation on why ?cheap? often means micro atx (most integrated graphics are designed to save money = ?cheap? = micro atx).

Personally I have some reservations about PC Chips and VIA individually, so putting them together doesn?t thrill me. That being said, my personal choice for a cheap, onboard video motherboard would be one of these.
ECS 760GX-M
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813186041">Foxconn 760GXK8MB-RS
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[Peter]

Funny that you don't want PC-Chips and in the same sentence recommend them

PC-Chips and ECS are two brands from the same company, in case you didn't know that.

Chipset wise, the SiS chipset gets you a DX8.1 3D engine (still abysmally slow though), while the VIA graphics engine has better 2D media accelerators. On the south bridge end, SiS has the greater overall feature set - not that it'd matter ... as if you'd ever need more than VIA's two SATA ports in such a machine.

 

[Zap]

I've had some bad luck with Biostar boards using the K8M800 chipset (5 out of 5 were glitchy). Since those are also budget boards, just a heads-up on avoiding them. Replaced those five boards with Gigabyte (K8M800 chipset) and Asus (SiS 760GX chipset) and problems magically disappeared.

If you want cheapest, before you buy new take a peek in For Sale/Trade.

 

[Pabster]

Stay FAR away from ANY board based on a VIA chipset.

ECS makes nice boards for the price. (And yes, PCChips is the same.)

SiS chipsets are very good as well.