Am thinking of building a new Media Center PC early August when I have seen where the prices end up of the CPUs.
It needs to be Micro ATX and have come up with a motherboard shortlist:
Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R iG33 Express, S775, PCI-Ex16, DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, VGA ----- £71.19
Asus P5K-VM iG33, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/800/667, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, On Board VGA ----- £85.76
Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD ATI, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, uATX, VGA ----- £66.58
The other bits will be (probably)
- Micro ATX case maybe Sugo
- 430w Tagan EasyCon - TG430-U15 - 2Force Silent Modular PSU (must be modular and cheap )
- Intel E2160 Socket 775 Pentium Dual Core 2x1.8Ghz 800FSB Retail Boxed
- 2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), LN11596 TWIN2X2048-64005-5-5-12
- 256MB Asus 8500GT, Silent, PCI-E (x16), Mem 800 MHz, GPU 459 MHz, 16 Pipes, D-Sub/DVI-I/HDTV
I want something which will overclock at low heat but will not be playing any games, just DivX Xvid video / HD potentially on my 32" LCD.
Can someone help me out with the mobo choice (and maybe any other suggestions if you have them !)
Cheers