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I have started looking for a new MB/CPU combo. Would like built in lan and video. Plan to use existing non serial drives. I found these two board/processor combos on pricewatch. Both are $125 + ~$30 to mount the processor test and a fan upgrade.
The two factor I can think of is the quality of the board (do you trust em) and the Chipset. The Gigabyte board uses the GeForce 6100. The Biostar uses the VIA K8M800 Chipset.
Any suggestions. Others I should look at in this pricerange.
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 X2 4200 M61SME-S2 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Chipset Dual Cha. DDR2 PCI Exp. 2 PCI IDE/2 SATA 8Cha Audio NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 VIDEO 10/100 LAN USB2.0 MATX W/CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.4GHz Dual Core W/Heatsink & FAN ...
and
Biostar Athlon 64 X2 AM2 4200 K8M800MAM2 Socket AM2 VIA K8M800 Chipset Dual Cha DDR2 AGP8X 2 PCI 4 EIDE UDMA133/SATA RAID1 5.1Cha Audio VIA UniChrome Pro VIDEO 10/100 LAN USB2.0 MATX W/CPU -AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 CPU W/Heatsink & FAN ...
I have started looking for a new MB/CPU combo. Would like built in lan and video. Plan to use existing non serial drives. I found these two board/processor combos on pricewatch. Both are $125 + ~$30 to mount the processor test and a fan upgrade.
The two factor I can think of is the quality of the board (do you trust em) and the Chipset. The Gigabyte board uses the GeForce 6100. The Biostar uses the VIA K8M800 Chipset.
Any suggestions. Others I should look at in this pricerange.
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 X2 4200 M61SME-S2 Socket AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Chipset Dual Cha. DDR2 PCI Exp. 2 PCI IDE/2 SATA 8Cha Audio NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 VIDEO 10/100 LAN USB2.0 MATX W/CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.4GHz Dual Core W/Heatsink & FAN ...
and
Biostar Athlon 64 X2 AM2 4200 K8M800MAM2 Socket AM2 VIA K8M800 Chipset Dual Cha DDR2 AGP8X 2 PCI 4 EIDE UDMA133/SATA RAID1 5.1Cha Audio VIA UniChrome Pro VIDEO 10/100 LAN USB2.0 MATX W/CPU -AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 CPU W/Heatsink & FAN ...