ASUS SiS Chipset TUSI-M - mainboard - micro ATX - SiS630ET

Advantages: Cheap but powerful and feature packed.
Disadvantages: er... its not free?

...the parts seperatly and although I'm usually sceptical of the quality of onboard parts these looked high standard and since I'm a big fan of ASUS I decided to buy it. And I'm glad I did. As is the norm for ASUS the quality of this board is superb and the intergrated parts surpassed anything I was expecting. Heres a breakdown of the features straight from the ASUS webpage: >Socket A AMD Athlon/AMD Duron processor support >SiS® 730S single chip >100MHz Front Side Bus support >Built-in AGP4X graphic controller >Two DIMM sockets for up to 1GB memory with PC133 SDRAM >RealTek® RTL8100 Fast Ethernet LAN controller >Built-in AC '97 audio controller >Two UltraDMA/100/66/33 IDE dual-channel interfaces >Four PCI 2.2 compliant slots >Six USB ports >ASUS® iPanel support >WOL, WOR Support >2Mb AwardR BIOS >Full ACPI, DMI... Read review

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Advantages: HDTV output, supports AMDs Cool 'n' Quiet
Disadvantages: Only one lan

...The ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard for AMD single-core Athlon 64/ Sempron and Dual-core Athlon 64 X2/ Athlon FX processors using socket AM2 is very user friendly, I went with AMDs 64 x2 3800+ processor in the beginning then moved up to 4200+ 2Gb Ram without any hassle, very easy to setup and fits easily in a standard ATX case. A possible downside to the board is that it has a limited number of slots due to being a micro ATX sized board. That's not a big deal for me as the only two cards I'll be buying in the future is Graphics and a extra Lan card. Board Layout `````````````````` >In the upper right hand corner of the motherboard are the ATX 24 pin power connector, Floppy disk connector, Game/Midi port connector and four DDR2 slots. These DDR2 slots support a maximum memory capacity of 8GB and the frequencies supported is DDR2-800MHz/667... Read review

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Advantages: 800FSB P4 support, SATA, 8 USB2 connections, AGP 8X and 6ch Sound with SPDIF
Disadvantages: ASUS motherboard site can be down at times

...Without a doubt one of the most powerful feature packed Micro-ATX Boards ever to roll out of the ASUS factory. This small form factor motherboard using the intel i865 chipset which will take right up the the latest(at time of writing) 3.4 Ghz CPUs, as well as the newer Prescott CPUs with increased Cache and even Extreme edition CPUs. Add to that an impressive array of onboard features including: 8 USB2 Ports(4 on the rear I/O shield, and PCI plate which will allow you to connect a further 4 from USB headers which are useful for cases with front usb connectors) Onboard 10/100 Lan. For connecting to a home network or router for internet access or file sharing. Dual Channel DDR 400. Dual channel is basically a way of putting in two identical sticks of rm, for example 2x 512mb crucial 3200, and the motherboard splits... Read review

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