Conroe Micro ATX board with decent graphics (ish)

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I have been tasked with building my sister a PC and I am sounding out the water as to what hardware to get for it.

ATM I am thinking of a micro atx case jut because it is smaller and because her PC doesnt need to be brilliant.

The PC will pretty much be used just for word, IE and watching videos and maybe run vista so I am thinking of a board with a semi decent onboard graphics set so it can run HD video and maybe Aero?

The cpu will possibly be a conroe 6300 so any advice on what board to get based on that processor? Is it worth going for a viiv MB , are they any better?

Thanks :)
 
Ah ok thanks. That is definitely a good price. So it will be able to run HD video without too much problem?

The last time I looked at integrated GFX was for an AMD chip and so was looking at the 6150 GFX chipsets, is the graphics on the intel similar to that?
 
Integrated graphics on it is around the performance of an FX5500/5600.

With settings on low/medium, it's happy to run a fair few of the newer games and give a good framerate.

Not sure about video support, but it's quite quick for an "integrated" graphics solution.
 
I'm not sure the 945G integrated graphics fully supports the new shiny in Vista. To be sure why not tack on a 6200/7300 turbo cache graphics card? It will definately be up to it and will only cost another £30 odd.
 
Dureth said:
I'm not sure the 945G integrated graphics fully supports the new shiny in Vista. To be sure why not tack on a 6200/7300 turbo cache graphics card? It will definately be up to it and will only cost another £30 odd.
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It carries the 'Certified For Windows Vista Premium' Logo so it should fully support Vista. BUt I think you might need to let it have the full 192MB of System RAM for that.
 
Well I am putting 1GB of ram in this pc so the full 192mb of memory will be supported fine. :)

I did wonder about a seperate GFX card but if i can get away with it i would prefer not to have it. It would cost more, make more noise and produce more heat and as I am trying to make the pc as quiet as possible they are all things i dont want.

Thanks for the help guys :)
 
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