Am I right in thinking there are no AM3 uATX Mobos ?

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I'm building a new HTPC

specs are as follows for intel route:

Antec Fusion case
Intel Q6700 (the 45nm Quads are too expensive, and want Quad for encoding)
4gb RAM
Mobo - best I can get <100 - on-board decoding not really needed
ATI 4670 (or 4650) graphics card

now as an alternate the Q6700 I was considering the Phenom II 720 - but no uATX boards seem to be AM3 compatible is this right ?

any recommendations on the Intel mobo please ? I was thinking the Gigabyte 9400 based and the Asus 9300 based boards, but with their on-board decoding GPU - they seem to have almost nuclear northbridges/gpus - I'd rather have a decent mobo and a separate graphics card - only restriction to the mobo is that it has an optical or coaxial digital out.

thanks, Mark.
 
the Intel option ....

I know the G45 is a bit overkill but the mobo is good at overclocking .. and has coaxial digital out

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ok - perhaps I'm getting confused

the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2h mobo does seem to support AM3 ? BUT would this be right out of the box ? Or would it need a bios flash ? (not easy when you haven't a CPU to start with ...)

thanks, Mark.
 
thanks for replies

went for the Gigabyte 9400 based mobo in the end + E7400 CPU + 4gb Buffallo Firestix + Mini Ninja

decided it was pointless having 2 power hungry Quad based systems, so any encoding I'll do on my main machine

should be ok :)
 
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