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    Socket A Motherboard for less than £40

    Hi everyone, i am loooking for a socket A motherboard with onboard sound and video, preferably in MATX form factor, here are what i have found in the categry, Which one do you think will run the most stable ? Ony internet games would be played and basic word processing will be done on the pc.


    PcChips SIS741 8xAGP DDR333 Onboard Real256E 3D Video, Sound, LAN, USB 2.0 for AMD Athlon XP / Sempron CPU's Retail Box £27

    PcChips M851G SKT A AGP X8 OnBoard UniChrome 3D Graphics, 6ch Sound LAN Flex-ATX Retail £31

    Abit VA-10 KM400 Socket A 333FSB DDR333 On-Board VGA 8xAGP MATX 6 Channel Sound & LAN Retail Box £32

    MSI KM4M-V SKT A 8xAGP Onboard VGA/Sound/LAN ATA133 MATX CPU support Up to XP 3200+ (FSB333) Retail Box £33

    Gigabyte GA7vm400M-RZ SKT A Viakm400 MATX VGA Sound LAN USB 2.0 FSB333 Retail Box £34

    Asus A7V400-MX Socket-A KM400 m-ATX - VGA Sound Lan USB2 333FSB ATA/133 Retail Box £34


    Which one is the best ? btw it is going with 2400 sempron and 512RAM.
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    Go with the Asus. I have one and it runs just fine. Even plays Medieval: Total War with 256Mb RAM and an AthlonXP 2200+. Using onboard graphics.
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    Keep away from PC Chips. I'll only buy boards ASUS, Abit and MSI.

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    Cheers guys i will go for the Asus. Any tips in assembling the rig, the full details of the rig is as follows :

    Kingston 512mb 400MHz DDR Non-ECC CL3 (3-3-3) DIMM (Kit 2)
    Asus A7V400-MX Socket-A KM400 m-ATX - VGA Sound Lan USB2 333FSB ATA/133 Retail Box
    AMD Sempron 2400+ (sda2400box) 256Cache 333FSB Retail Boxed Processor With 3 Year Warranty
    Deluxworld M9512 4-1 Pack - Case Keyboard Mouse Speakers
    Seagate Barracuda 40GB 7200rpm UDMA100 UIDE - OEM
    Benq 52x Internal IDE CD-ROM Drive - OEM
    ACER AL1512M 15ins TFT TCO99 1024x768 23ms Analogue Speakers White

    All from ebuyer as they gave my free shipping ! Total price £317

    Any sugestions and tips for assembly welcomed

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    I was going to say an ABIT VA-20 from Tekheads (just built 1 - came up nicely ) but I guess that I'm too late ...

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