need advise on this board.

[bleucharm28]

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-880g-wifi-880gitx-a-e.html

A friend of mine wants smaller pc but dont' want to spend money. What do you all think about this Zotac mini itx board?

This pc is mainly for browsing, email, basic PC use. Gaming: Solitaire maybe some CS. Going move her existing parts (AM3 Athlon II CPU, and ddr3 1600 ram)

Or pay more for a new intel 1155 mini itx, some of those H61 or H77 models and match it with Celeron Ivy Bridge dual cores.

Thanks.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That Zotac board, minus the WiFi:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...ITX-PB&cat=MBB

If you would prefer S775:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DQ45EK-BULK&cat=MBB

 

[tweakboy]

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-880g-wifi-880gitx-a-e.html

A friend of mine wants smaller pc but dont' want to spend money. What do you all think about this Zotac mini itx board?

This pc is mainly for browsing, email, basic PC use. Gaming: Solitaire maybe some CS. Going move her existing parts (AM3 Athlon II CPU, and ddr3 1600 ram)

Or pay more for a new intel 1155 mini itx, some of those H61 or H77 models and match it with Celeron Ivy Bridge dual cores.

Thanks.

Zotac is a cheapo company. I wouldn't trust it. There is plenty of Asus mini ATX or gigabyte your choice.


The small form factor is couple inches shorter but you might be missing features as firewire or something else.

 

[infoiltrator]

The "problem" with the two board is they do not accept PCIe2.0x16 video cards if needed. PCIe1.0 .
How much video muscle is needed.
For various reasons mITX Motherboards are expensive.
Trinity is supposed to decrease in price in a few weeks.
I am not fond of the Celeron over the Pentium CPUs, with the G860 $67.74 vs $50 for Celeron.