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Asus A7N8X Motherboard Sold

Submitted by tarvid on Wed, 2009/11/11 - 10:25
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Asus A7N8X Motherboard Sold
  • Nvidia nForce2
  • Socket A
  • DDR2 RAM
  • PATA IDE
  • 10/100 Ethernet
  • AGP 8X
  • 6 USB
  • Firewire

$25

 

 

Building a high-performance inexpensive PC

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A few times each year, Woody, Jeff and I are called upon to come up a cost-effective upgrade or "new" PC. Not nearly often enough to be an economic venture in itself, but sufficiently often to keep our nose in the market for "best of class" products. A few people have asked recently what we would build "today" (one week before Christmas).

Intel Little Falls Mini ITX Motherboard

Submitted by tarvid on Thu, 2008/08/28 - 07:49
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Intel Little Falls Mini ITX Motherboard

It's small - 17cm x 17cm (Mini-ITX), green - about 2 amps, capable - 1.6GHz Celeron (Atom) and costs less than $100, With a special north bridge heat sink, it will fit in an extruded aluminum case (suitable for a car also about $100) and can be powered by a wide input DC power supply (6-24v - about $70). You will need a stick of PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM (<$40), a laptop hard drive ($50 and up), a slim CD/DVD (~$30) and the most expensive single component, a touch LCD screen ($300 and up). So for about $800 you can build a rugged, under the dash, car powered, touch screen PC. Geeky teenage offspring or neighbor required.

 

Biostar TF7050-M2 Socket AM2 GeForce 7050PV Motherboard

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Economical AMD Motherboard

This chipset has been superceeded by the Nvidia GeForce 8200 and AMD CrossFire 780G

  • Socket AM2 - supports inexpensive AMD dual core processors
  • DDR2 - fastest RAM memory type for the $
  • SATA2 - fastest and most economical hard drive interface
  • nVidia GeForce 7050PV - best integrated graphics card
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • HDMI - high definition TV output

$68.50 at eWIZ

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