Motherboard with no onboard LAN, video, or sound

[silvertabbed]

Is it even POSSIBLE to find a motherboard without onboard video, LAN, and sound anymore? Whatever happened to the good 'ol days when I could have my own stuff?

I'm looking for a P4 motherboard that can take a 3 GHz but doesn't have onboard sound, LAN, or video. I know I can have my own even WITH the onboard stuff, but I'd rather have a motherboard that doesn't have it on there to begin with, so that I don't have to disable it. Does anybody know of one?

And before anybody goes there, I don't wanna hear any comments about why I shouldn't be using a P4, or deriding me for even wanting a mobo without those things so I can use my own NIC, vid card, and sound card - I just DO.

 

[Zap]

IIRC the closest you'll get would be the Intel Canterwood board (875DPZ or something like that). It does not have video/audio onboard at all, but has onboard network using Intel CSA GBe, which supposedly works really well. On the AMD side, the DFI LANPARTY boards have the separate module that you can leave off.

 

[Harvey]

A new board without onboard LAN is probably not going to happen. It's in the chipsets, they perform as well as separate LAN hardware and it's such a cheap feature to implement that the manufacturers wouldn't save any money to tool up for a board that wouldn't sell as well as those with the features. You can always turn them off in the CMOS.

Cheap onboard sound is also in the chipsets. It's obviously, not as good as you'll get in a decent plug in card, but again, it's in many of the chipsets, and it costs so little to implement that they may as well include it.

Onboard video is another story. Unless they include separate RAM for the video, the shared memory architecture is a real performance drag, and the cost of good video would make the board too expensive for the target market of entry level buyers.

 

[Kakumba]

I dont see that happening. no onboard video - easy. no onboard sound - easy (kinda, DFI use a module so you have the option). as for no onboard LAN, I dont recall seeing such a thing recently. also, by having an onboard NIC, that helps you avoid the dreaded XP reactivation when replacing hardware (there is a full explanation of that somewhere. I think its in the "New Memory = Windows reactivation" or something like that thread)

and I think you have a fair point, there should be these kind of options, I wouldnt even class onboard video as a graphics solution for Windows 3.11

 

[openwheelformula1]

I got a Abit BE6-II. Want it? I'd do $15 shipped lol. I gaurantee no onboard anything.

 

[silvertabbed]

Yeah, I haven't seen a mobo without onboard LAN in QUITE awhile...

 

[silvertabbed]

Thanks Zap! I'll check it out...