Out of these two which you pick? The Biostar is $33 and the Gigabyte is $39 Biostar M7NCD (AGP 8x - Nforce 2 - 400/333mhz FSB) - Nforce 2 chipset 8x/4x AGP Slot DDR PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 Memory Support 5 PCI / 1 CNR / 6 USB (2.0) Ultra ATA 66/100/133 Hard Drive Support Integrated 6 Channel Audio & 10/100 Lan Supports 266 & 333& 400MHz FSB CPUs (Click Here for More Info) Gigabyte 7VT600L (AGP8x- 4 USB2.0- 400/333mhz FSB) - 8x/4x AGP Slot DDR PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 Memory Support Up to 3GB of DDR 400 KT600 Chipset 5 PCI / 1 CNR / 4 USB (2.0) Ultra ATA 66/100/133 Hard Drive Support Integrated 6 Channel Audio Supports 266 & 333 & 400MHz FSB CPUs (Click Here for More Info)
Welcome to the forums pixel future. I moved your thread to Hardware as you will get a much better response and quicker answers to your question in this forum.
Wow. Those are good prices. where at? If it were me, I'd go with niether. try Newegg.com here Shuttle an35n400 Nforce2 with all the trimmings for $57 (and it's Blue too!) Biostar is not known for great motherboards and I'd rather have nForce2 than KT600 any day another guideline is anything with a CNR slot is poo. Hope this helps. And welcome to the forums
Thanks guys The mother board comes with a barebones computer package. But I will definitely check out that link.
If it is more affordable for you to go with the barebones then by all means do so. If you really want to learn something, or are interested in performance/games stay away from pre-builts and build from scratch. It wasn't too long ago I was building my first system. I couldn't afford much but I built it up bit by bit. That old MSI with a 1GHz proc and 256mb of SDRAM ran for a good long time. Before long I had overclocked and watercooled it. Good fun really. For good deals on parts check out pricewatch.com
Well I am making a brief case mod. So buying a case and all that is a waste. It's not for gaming really. I will mostly use it for graphic design. And it will be a secondary computer.
I've purchased that Biostar board for myself and a few others and have to say that it seems to be damned stable. Couple of things to note though, its only the single channel version of the nforce 2 chipset and it only has the basic MCP southbridge so no funky sound decoding to spdif. That said it seems to be a great motherboard, have purchased maybe 4 of them and the only problem I had was with one of them which had the integrated network go bad for some reason, I never spent very much time diagnosing it though and threw in a spare PCI network card I had about (I have approximately 3 million of these ). Still a very solid board though
