micro ATX w/onboard vid ?

[arctic388]

trying to piece together a really "cheap" PC few questions

will a micro ATX fit in an ATX case ?
found a MSI board with 6150 vid. is it any good ?
no gaming. just basic net stuff.

looking at 1GB DDR2 667 ram and 3500 Orleans.

just need a good cheap board for now.

 

[A Tree]

A Micro ATX board should fit into most ATX cases. The video is equivalent to say an X300 or so. Good for non-games and non-graphic intensive work. Although, I did play Far Cry for a while on mine before. 🙂

 

[arctic388]

thanks, i wont be playing games i just need to replace my old PC that is about to die and i have almost no budget at the moment. just mainly for surfing the web and doing plain work.

 

[INM8]

Theres lots of info on 6150 motherboards including the MSI one you speak of in this thread here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...adid=1803985&STARTPAGE=1&enterthread=y

 

[arctic388]

thanks, that should help.

 

[arctic388]

what do you think of this for a cheap PC ?

APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Dreamer ATXB3KLW-BK/420W Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX 420W power supply for AMD/Intel Power Supply $49.99 ( didnt see any of the reviews that said the PSU is bad so i was gonna go with the one with it unless it fails )

MSI K9NGM2-FID Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard $78.99

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Orleans 2000MHz HT Socket AM2 Processor Model ADA3500CNBOX $91.00

AMPO 512MB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4200) System Memory Model 3AMD2533-512M1-R $37.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160811AS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $58.99

also gonna get Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/Update Rollup Release 2 OEM 1 Pack - OEM 109.99

I plan to use old CRT monitor and keyboard and mouse i have now.

am i missing anything ? anybody have any knowledge of these parts being bad choices ? my goal is to get it as cheaply as possible and need it to do basic office work and net for about a year at least.

thanks

 

[renethx]

I would buy 2 x 512MB (or even 2 x 1GB) for future upgrade, and perhaps DDR2-667. That assures dual channel mode (you need two sticks) and better system performance (512MB might be too small).

 

[bluesky]

NIB chip for 80 shipped.

 

[arctic388]

what is the difference with DDR 2 667 memory one says PC2 5300 and PC2 5400 ?

which is the correct one

 

[renethx]

667 x 8 = 5336
675 x 8 = 5400

PC2 5400 memory is verified to operate at 675MHz. But there is no DDR2-675 standard by JEDEC, hence it is still called DDR2-667.

 

[arctic388]

thanks, i have no idea what that means so i better get to studying. seems like when i got it figured out i find out i dont.