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Need a good Motherboard W/On-board Video/Sound

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Nucleus

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I'm looking for the best Motherboard with Vid/sound on it doesn't need to be a overclocker
or have raid it's for my parents they could care less about that, and it needs to be for a
Intel CPU again it's for my parents. I'm guessing a MOBO for a PIII they wont want to buy a new
PSU for a P4, hell I can probably answer my own question...I should get them a Intel MOBO?

Any suggestion are welcome
 
I would check newegg's refurbished section. Some of their mobos are only $49 shipped. At that price, you could afford a cheap 32 meg video card. Your biggest decision is whether to change memory, or use your old stuff. Computer Geeks has a biostar mobo with the via 694x chipset that supports most P3 cpus for only $29.99 (no onboard video). Add to that an ati radeon ve card for about $54 and your good to go.
 
Thanks for the suggestion guys I'll check them out I should of stated that they allready have 192meg of PC100 ram, I'm sure they don't wan't to rebuy any new ram. And the CPU I'm looking to get them is a 1Gig PIII.
 
Use an all-in-one board, and put a Duron or Celeron on it. Your parents will never notice the difference between a Duron-800 and an Athlon-XP 2000.

Good board for SDRAM is PC-Chips M810LR, this has it all - video, 4-channel sound, LAN and modem . Or get something similar from their 7xx series if it's got to be an Intel CPU (which is a waste of money though).

regards, Peter
 
ECS K7SEM (SiS 730S, Duron) or Asus TUSI-M (SiS 635T). Both are mATX, and thus you have good flexibilty. The K7SEM doesn't have great upgrading potential though.
 
I have been using the EPoX 3PTA motherboard with an ATI Rage 8MB Video card for my budget Intel systems. Together, they are cheaper than most integrated boards and offer more flexibility in the future.
 
Since you have some PC100 that you want to use, and are buying a new CPU too...Go for a Tualatin Celeron setup. Get a Celeron 1.0A - 1.2A CPU, and an ASUS TUSL2 or Intel D815E mobo (there are many different models). Both are 815 boards with sound, video, and an AGP slot for future upgrade. This will be cheaper than the PIII 1G and run very well.

Googlegear:
C1.0A $68
Intel D815EFVLU $118 video audio and lan.

If you want to ugrade the CPU a little...

C1.1A = $78
C1.2 = $88
C1.3 = $103
 
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