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Best Micro ATX Solution

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sqeezon

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I am looking to put together a micro atx machine this week. I am looking for the best bang for my buck. The only thing I currently own that will be going into the machine is a single slot 8800gt. Can anyone offer me advice as to whether ATI or Intel makes a better micro atx board for the price and what processor I should be looking at (dual core and doesn't have to be crazy fast). Also, I plan on throwing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144259 in there too. Thanks. :D
 
What will you be doing with the machine? You may get more appropriate answers asking in the SFF forum as they've used/tested boards no one else has ever even heard of.
 
Kil4Thril said:
What will you be doing with the machine? You may get more appropriate answers asking in the SFF forum as they've used/tested boards no one else has ever even heard of.
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+1 for this. What's the most important feature you're looking to get out of the board? is onboad IGP important, etc? If you're thinking of AMD, 780V might be a good low cost solution seeing that you plan on running a discrete vid card.. Intel side, G33/43/45 would be a good solution. Stay away from GeForce 7xxx series from nVidia - heard good things about 9xxx series, but they're still pricey.
 
If you are going with a dedicated graphics solution I don't know if I would suggest anything with IGP.
 
Silentbob343 said:
If you are going with a dedicated graphics solution I don't know if I would suggest anything with IGP.
burnin8r said:
there are no mATX boards without IGP except for the EVGA NF44, which they stopped making in 2006.
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Well there is a the DFI P45 JR matx board that doesn't have IGP. ;)

I don't think having IGP matters all that much when using matx whether you have a dedicated vid card or not. If you don't need it, you can simply disable it in the bios. It does come in handy tho - I use it on my 780G board to drive my 2 aux LCD's while having the main one hooked up to the discrete card.
 
sqeezon said:
I am looking to put together a micro atx machine this week. I am looking for the best bang for my buck. The only thing I currently own that will be going into the machine is a single slot 8800gt. Can anyone offer me advice as to whether ATI or Intel makes a better micro atx board for the price and what processor I should be looking at (dual core and doesn't have to be crazy fast). Also, I plan on throwing http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144259 in there too. Thanks. :D
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E5200/G31 is the best bang-for-buck solution... Most mATX boards come with onboard graphics, but you can disable that if you don't want it.
 
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