Which of these mother boards would you choose?

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My girlfriend wants to build a new computer over the summer - to replace her somewhat aged Celery 533 😛 - and I was thinking of basing it on an Nforce-2 IGP-based board. So I was looking around newegg this evening and noticed that the place had a few boards that were:

a)under or right around $100 and
b) shipped for free.

The question is, which one to choose? I was thinking the MSI board, because of the passive cooling on the northbridge chip (trying to keep it quiet), but the "no return" warning makes me a little leery of it. Which one would you go with?

The rest of the prospective rig:

AMD AthlonXP 1700+ CPU / SVC GC-68 cooler
2x256 DDR-SDRAM (either PC2100 or 2700 - can the memory and CPU be run asyncronously so that the video has more bandwidth?)
Antec SX630 case
Fortron 300W PSU w/ 120mm cooling fan (I may pick one of these up; my antec truepower has started rattling recently)
DVD-ROM, CD burner, monitor, & speakers from her old computer

The whole point of this rig is to increase performance at minimal cost, and still give her a good base to build on if she wants something better later. Work on it a piece at a time after the basic system is up and running.


Nate

 

[Corporate Thug]

the soltek has been getting amazing reviews

 

[tjaisv]

Soltek is good.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

We have a good Soltek thread going in the mobo forum come check it out, I think you'll like the results people are getting with the Golden Flame series.

 

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Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
We have a good Soltek thread going in the mobo forum come check it out, I think you'll like the results people are getting with the Golden Flame series.

Interesting thread. Neither I nor my girlfriend are really interested in overclocking this rig, but I'll take the time to read through that at some point anyway.

Nate