Overclocking board with onboard video

[KoolDrew]

What is the best socket 939 board for overclocking that has onboard video?

 

[Wentelteefje]

Don't count on getting the same 300+MHz speeds like nearly any full-fledged nForce4, but this BIOSTAR TForce 6100-939 should do quite fine... Price is about right, because you're still dealing with the GeForce 6100, which has less features than the newer 6150...

EDIT: It's undeniably the best choice around... People do seem to reach nearly 300MHz HTT in a lot of the cases...

 

[RobsTV]

Have no problems running Jetway A210GDMS Pro motherboards at 300MHz FSB. (naked Bios).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813153027
Opteron 144 at 300x9 2700MHz and Opteron 146 at 300x10, 3GHz.
Own 6 of them now, (Newegg refurbs $55) and they fly!.
Uses ATi x300 onboard, but unlike nvidia IGP, they actually include 32 megs of dedicated onboard memory, plus whatever you wish to share.
Onboard scores 3dm2k1se @ 7533, 3dm2k3 @ 1995, and 3dm2k5 @ 799.
Those are about 20% faster than my overclocked Gigabyte 6150 scored.
In one rig I use for gaming, tossed in a $100 ATi x800 PCIe, and it scored 10,885 in 3dm2k3.
This puts the Jetway mATX up there with any ATX quality overclockable motherboard.

Also the Jetway choose ULi for southbridge, instead of the slower ATi southbridge other xpress200 motherboards used, which cures the weak spot reported in some reviews.

Some boards, such as ECS running ATi xpress200, lose onboard video when overclocked. Some lose audio.

The Jetway loses onboard NIC when overclocked. Everything else, including HDA and video, work great.
For my HTPC the NIC was not used anyway, since I used wireless G. In gaming rig added a 99 cent Belkin NIC from deal a few years ago. Others that prefer Gigalan would be using add on card as well.

The Biostar is a nice board, but has the same flaw many mATX boards have.
PCIe x1 slot is outside other slots.
This means that should you decide to use a PCIe x16 video card some day, and add a video card cooler like many do, you will lose one of the two PCI slots available. Other boards, like the Jetway for example, place the PCI x1 slot between PCIe x16 and PCI slots, so if you add a video card with cooler, you only lose PCIe x1 slot, and still have two PCI slots left for add ons. With one of the main purposes of mATX is using small cases that are used in HTPC rigs, add on cards like tuners quickly use up slots, so having only one available is a no go for most HTPC owners.

Not that it really matters, but the Jetway also uses standard 20pin ATX connector instead of the newer 24 pin found on some boards (such as Biostar). Again, for HTPC useage, this may make a difference, because most small cases have small power supplies, so lower power motherboards can help. Run some of the above Opteron's in Athenatch mATX cases with stock 220w PS, and no problems ever.

Prior to the Jetway, all the HTPC's in use and sold here were running nVidia NF2 boards. While researching the new 6150's as a replacement, stumbled onto the Jetway info at Hardforums and other places, and bought a test sample. Also bought Gigabyte 6150 to test. Sold the Gigabyte, and bought 5 more Jetways.