What's the least expensive fully integrated mobo?

[tweakage]

I'm looking for the least expensive Slot A mobo, for a test system. I don't care much about video or sound performance.

I need Onboard:

1. Sound
2. LAN
3. Video

Can you suggest anything other than the MSI K7N420? Although I like the board it costs about $150 including shipping and thats more than I really want to spend. Thanks

 

[AkumaBao]

Welcome to AT!!!

You're going to have a very hard time finding something like that for a Slot A. Now a Socket A is a diffrent situation. You can find a Socket A board with most of that from PCChips. ( the cheapest way )

 

[tweakage]

you're totally right about that one. I have no idea why I said Slot. I haven't used a slot in years. Socket is the word.......Socket

 

[Athlon4all]

ECS K7SEM $50. SiS 730S chipset, On-Board video, sound and LAN

 

[Theslowone]

Biostar m7vkq, Msi 6378l, amptron 3758lmr+ also for around 50.
pc chips 810lmr for 60.

 

[tweakage]

awesome responses everybody. Thanks for all the tips

 

[Boonesmi]

the pcchips 810lmr and the ecs k7sem are identical boards (both made in the same fab)

the only difference is the 810lmr also comes with 56k amr modem... so you dont need to add a single pci card

 

[Peter]

parrot mode on ... K7SEM and 810LR are not at all identical boards. Sure, it's the same company making them,
but they're different.

810LR uses the SiS chipset integrated LAN channel, while K7SEM uses a separate Realtek 8139 PCI. Thus 810LR
has the lower ping latency and no PCI bus load during LAN traffic, in turn K7SEM can run a 2nd channel of a CNR riser card.
Furthermore, current revisions of 810LR have 4-channel sound, full Athlon-XP compatibility, and the package includes
an AMR modem.

But it's all academic anyway, now that 841LR and L7SOM are beginning to show up on retail shelves. They're both using
the much faster SiS 740 chipset - and no, they're not identical 841LR has SDRAM and DDR slots, L7SOM is DDR-only, same
difference as before on LAN and modem, and other more subtle differences.

regards, Peter

 

[DieHardware]

<< parrot mode on ... >>

lol