really stuck

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 19:22

i had my board already picked however i didnt go down the amd route, went with intel and well iam lost, so many chipsets. was wondering if there are any amd chipset like 780G( i know they dont do it but something similiar) on intel boards as i have a ati card.

Want to spend 60-70 on a intel mother board, however would like it to have hdmi with on board graphics supporting dx10.
by the way reason, well i want to use the board chip mem for my media center in the future.

fozzybear · 6 Nov 2008 at 20:38

After a bit of googling, ive found a possible in the Asus P5E-VM HDMI. Its over your budget though.

fozzybear · 6 Nov 2008 at 20:41

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1912&l1=3&l2=11&l3=584&l4=

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 21:05

fozzybear said:
After a bit of googling, ive found a possible in the Asus P5E-VM HDMI. Its over your budget though.

Thanks, thats what i've been looking at, however what are good chip sets for ati cards? and why are intel boards so expensive?
however i think theres a problem with vista and 5.1 with that board.

HD3200 on board if possible

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 21:20

ASUS SKT-775 P5QL-EM S/V/L 1333FSB

what about this board?

fozzybear · 6 Nov 2008 at 21:27

Don't know if that supports dx10.

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 21:31

Intel G43 + ICH10

X4500 graphics with DirectX10 support
i think it does but how does the above and this chipset compare, my friend

just adding hdmi boards

GA-EG45M-DS2H

fozzybear · 6 Nov 2008 at 21:54

mattheman said:
Intel G43 + ICH10 X4500 graphics with DirectX10 support i think it does but how does the above and this chipset compare, my friend

You could also look at the G45 chipset. The P5QL-EM looks reasonably specced. Someone with more knowledge will tell you the difference between the G43 and G45.

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 22:02

fozzybear said:
You could also look at the G45 chipset. The P5QL-EM looks reasonably specced. Someone with more knowledge will tell you the difference between the G43 and G45.

the difference is that the g43 2 stick and does not decode mpeg2 g45 4 stick and does decode mpeg2, just found that on a web site.

thanks for the time fozzybear

fozzybear · 6 Nov 2008 at 22:14

Just thought i'd mention that the Gigabyte board you posted only has PCIe x 4 and not PCIe x 16. Needn't matter if you only use onboard gfx.

Banjo · 6 Nov 2008 at 22:24

I realise it's a little over budget but I'd recommend the Asus P5E-VM HDMI, it's a solid board and I've got it feeding my 7.1 Creative T7700 in Vista Ultimate x64 without any problems at all.

The onboard graphics do support HDMI and DX10 but you cannot use the onboard HDMI when a graphics card is plugged into the PCI-E slot and the Intel drivers do not give DX10 support, but I'm pretty sure all the hardware decoding stuff works under Vista, which is the important bit for a media centre.

I'm actually using this board to power a mATX gaming rig so I can't tell you about the media centre capabilities of the board, sorry.

Hope that helps,

Harri

mattheman · 6 Nov 2008 at 23:23

fozzybear said:
Just thought i'd mention that the Gigabyte board you posted only has PCIe x 4 and not PCIe x 16. Needn't matter if you only use onboard gfx.

arh i need it for my 4850 ati card, as ill be using the board till i upgrade next time, just wanted to make a media center with the left overs after my next upgrade late next year.