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Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
* only one expansion slot (pci)
from MonsieurGonzo, www.newegg.com
there's just one (legacy) pci expansion slot...
from KBCraig, www.newegg.com
pci expansion slot.
from Frank, www.newegg.com
pci expansion--not express--which limits performace of cg card choices.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
also may be limited on expansion with only a single pci slot on board so plan your internal hardware wisely.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Performance, Good Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Core Duo, Intel Atom

2 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for EXPANSION

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

$145.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
the board is beautiful and more feature rich than i know what to do with, but i bought it specifically for future expansion.
from jmvillafana, www.newegg.com
lots of expansion.
from CaseyD, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: has lots of room for expansion, looks nice through the window, if that counts for anything.
from Cosmo, www.newegg.com
pros: excellent build quality; booted right up with no pre-config required; well arranged; plenty of expansion space; easily overclocked amd x3 720 to 3.6 ghz (more possible) and unlocked 4th core
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: good looking, e-sata and plenty sata ports, dual bios is a nice peace of mind pro, plenty expansion ports and usb ports, thick and strong.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, High Quality, Socket AM2

3 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for EXPANSION

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from J to the Me, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: it seems to have a lot of features and adjustments that i don't know how to use, so i feel like this has great capability for future expansion.
from Smoof, www.newegg.com
you also have tons of upgradability if you get bored of your e5200 and can go get a quad core, etc.
from Zinosys, www.newegg.com
way too many usb ports and two extra expansion usb slots on the board.
from broiled, www.newegg.com
pros: lots of expansion ports, supports ddr2-1033, pcie x16 2.
from chris, www.newegg.com
pros: great ability for expansion, i cant wait to really push this board.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Excellent Performance, Socket LGA775

4 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for EXPANSION

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R Core 2 Quad/ P45/

$158.00 Est. at Amazon

from PRos., www.newegg.com
also nicely colour coded.this is a good motherboard for general use and plenty of room for expansion.
from Z-Man, www.newegg.com
plenty of usb expansion slots.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i currently have 12 hdd's & a dvd burner installed with 2 esata ports as well for further expansion.
from Uncle Bubba, www.newegg.com
what do i do if i replace the video card that takes up two expansion slots?
from quake worx, www.newegg.com
great documentation, good looking, plenty of expansion support and lots of legacy support (ide, ps2, etc) that is starting to fade away on other brands.

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Positives: Nice Reliability, Great Performance, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

5 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for EXPANSION

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P

$325.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this motherboard makes overclocking easy with all its options and has plenty of expansion slots
from Aaron, www.newegg.com
lots of expansion space.
from Dark Darwin, www.newegg.com
the mobo has a lot of options for expansion and has decent documentation.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
if you want to run three way sli dont buy this board or buy a case with 10 expansion slots.
from NewbReview, www.newegg.com
pros: good layout, lots of expansion room, solid documentation, priced very well, sli 3 way support cons: cpu cooler (aftermarket vigor monsoon 3) size made the connecting of some cables a bit

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, High Quality, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

$63.00 Est. at Amazon

from theatremonkey, www.newegg.com
lots of room for expansion of chip, drives and video card.
from Walt, www.newegg.com
limited expansion slots and memory, but fine considering the price.
from GRzeszutek, www.newegg.com
if you are looking to build a limited expansion computer, this board is the one to get.
from BaristaBorg, www.newegg.com
cons: any decent sized video card will block one of the expansion slots.
from Frog, www.newegg.com
cons: microatx limits expansion, not a problem for me.

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Positives: Great Reliability, Easy To Install, Nice Performance, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

$66.00 Est. at Amazon

from JoeMoeFan, www.newegg.com
it has a healthy mix of 2 pci and pci-e slots for expansion.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
could use another expansion slot.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
this will have similar idle power consumption as an atom-based system, but with much more performance/expansion headroom.
from BrionS, www.newegg.com
pros: this board is very compact, supports a fair amount of memory, has dual channel ram with only two slots, quite expandable and has no fans on the nb or sb cons: pcie x16 slot is positioned

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Positives: Great Performance, Good Reliability, Easy To Install, Socket LGA775

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from TheBeanery, www.newegg.com
expansion slots abound.
from transplanter, www.newegg.com
onboard graphics are adequate and pci e expansion ports allows future update.first foxconn mobo i have worked with and was very impressed with manual and mobo applications that came bundled with board
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: have had no errors or glitches, no malfunctioning ports or expansion slots.
from JDP, www.newegg.com
pros: inexpensive, good assortment of legacy ports, accepts 20 or 24 pin power supply, worked well for me out of box cons: just 2 memory slots, limiting expansion options.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Excellent Performance, Socket AM2

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from PCGUY, www.newegg.com
pci slot expansion host only one, disappointment, but overall for basic needs it is fine.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
wish i had more upgradability on it but that is what i paid for.
from Buford, www.newegg.com
i wouldn't need it for anything else.there is practically no room for expansion with only one memory slot and one pci slot, which some may see as problematic, but for my purposes neither is an issue.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
very limited expansion.
from Buford, www.newegg.com
i avoided this entirely by simply disabling the onboard ethernet and installing an inexpensive gigabit ethernet card in the one pci slot as i wouldn't need it for anything else.there is practically

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Socket 771

ASUS M3a78-cm 4719543162934

ASUS Motherboard M3a78-cm (4719543162934)

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from Techtronic, www.newegg.com
not supplied.it is a connector on the board but is internal so you will need to have an extra expansion slot in your case and will have to purchase the parrallel port add-in with ribbon cable to make
from ellesar, www.newegg.com
so, if you want sli, firewire, parallel ports, expansion cards, get a board with more features.
from Kingtiger01, www.newegg.com
cons: too few expansion slots(pci-x/pci), poor onboard audio(imo).

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Positives: Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Good Performance, Socket AM2

Gigabyte Technology GA-MA790FX-UD5P Amd 790fx +

$208.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
good points are still good, it's a well designed board, plenty of expansion sots and big enough to handle this monster of a cpu fan i have with no issues!
from SchmuckofNI, www.newegg.com
pros: am2+/3 (in theory), 8 sata slots with an external expansion card for esata (not onboard), 2 16x 2.0 pciexpress slots.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Socket AM2+, Compatible Processors: AMD Athlon, AMD Sempron, AMD Phenom FX, AMD Phenom X4, AMD Athlon X2, AMD Phenom X3, Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM

ASRock A780GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX

$93.00 Est. at Amazon

from Brent, www.newegg.com
pros: great price, support for the newer processors, good number of pci slots for expansion, 6 sata ports.
from Thor99, www.newegg.com
cons: expansion cards were a little difficult to seat at first- took a fair amount of force to get them to snap in place.

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Positives: Good Performance, Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Socket AM2

Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0

$78.00 Est. at Amazon

from screenerx, www.newegg.com
good ob video with a x16 2.0 expansion slot.
from D, www.newegg.com
cons: alot of people were happy that they just plugged in there hhd and it ran,didnt work for me though,its was a good thing i was updating xp with the disc to sp3 or else i would have had to format

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Positives: Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Good Reliability, Socket AM2

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

$169.00 Est. at Amazon

from Aim, www.newegg.com
8 usb ports on the rear, 2 more usb expansion ports on the board, 8 sata..
from 440bx, www.newegg.com
does not look like it came out of the "computer case bad taste circus" that seems to have taken over the last few years.lots of expansion bays (9 full size.) cons: the locking mechanism for
from 440bx, www.newegg.com
if you plug the audio header it is very unlikely you will be able to use the first slot, because it will interfere with most pci-e expansion cards.
from iTyler22, www.newegg.com
pros: nice looking board, tons of expansion slots and lots of bios settings to have fun with cons: got the board on time and tried booting, booted to windows screen once, then bsod.
from bob2000, www.newegg.com
pros: stable reliable board with expansion features that will give it a long life of incremental upgrades.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Nice Reliability, Great Performance, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
which is good because of limited expansion slots cons: -could not mildly overclock a q6600 quad with an excellent 750 watt power supply and memory underclocked other thoughts: bios would
from Yu, www.newegg.com
pretty much the lowest priced good board with a pci express 2.0 x16 expansion slot.

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Positives: Excellent Reliability, Easy To Install, Nice Performance, Socket LGA775

ASUS M3A76-CM

$70.00 Est. at Amazon

from ChrisO6988, www.newegg.com
plenty of expansion room with 4 ram slots, 6 sata ports, and up to 12 usb ports.
from DETHMOKIL, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: not a great platform for expansion, but i doubt it was made for that anyway.
from psyph3r, www.newegg.com
pros: quality look and feel, plenty of room for expansion.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, Nice Reliability, Socket AM2+

DFI LANPARTY UT X58-T3eH8

$326.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
expansion slots are also positioned very well, and give my gpu much room to breathe.
from MIAHALLEN, www.newegg.com
(assuming your video cards are using standard dual slot cooling solutions)also, with the audio bracket in the top location, not only does the ribbon cable not reach, but the heatpipe from the pwm
from sonicspeed088, www.newegg.com
but an update to the latest beta bios fixed this problem.little choice in undervolting options, do not buy this board if you plan on running stock settings, and undervolting.onboard audio chip will
from Quaiden, www.newegg.com
pros: 1) easy to install2) lots of accessories3) sli support/capabilities4) nice color scheme5) came with tons of extra screws and such6) good manuel for those who know what they are doing (probably

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Positives: Great Reliability, Nice Performance, Easy To Install, Socket LGA1366

EVGA 132-YW-E178-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i

$175.00 Est. at Amazon

from Corey, www.newegg.com
expansion has 4, front of case has 2.* included fan seems a bit cheap, but no problems so far.
from Lt.pigpen, www.newegg.com
several usb 2.0 off mother board options nice, 2, or 4 add on via expansion port on back panel.
from Fungryman, www.newegg.com
pros: lots of expansion capabilities, 8 phase power regulation, overclocks like a charm.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Reliability, Good Performance, Socket LGA775

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

$370.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: the capacity of this board for expansion is impressive.
from CodeBlue, www.newegg.com
pros: fantastic board, well laid out with tons of expansion options.

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Positives: Good Reliability, Good Performance, Easy To Install, Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

$73.00 Est. at Amazon

from Carskick, www.newegg.com
6 sata headers mean you can hook up plenty of hard drives, all the expansion slots allow descent upgradability, and the board has an array of overclocking features.
from Mike, www.newegg.com
cons: doesn't have many expansion slots, but i knew that going in, so maybe it isn't fair to call it a con.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Reliability, Nice Performance, Socket AM2

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Best Motherboards for Expansion

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R Core 2 Quad/ P45/

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

Gigabyte G31 DDR2-800X2 VGA EES PCIE16 2PCIE PCI

FOXCONN A74MX-K AMD 740G AM2+/AM2 Phenom

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

ASUS M3a78-cm 4719543162934

Gigabyte Technology GA-MA790FX-UD5P Amd 790fx +

ASRock A780GXH/128M AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI ATX

Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0

Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

ASUS M3A76-CM

DFI LANPARTY UT X58-T3eH8

EVGA 132-YW-E178-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i

Gigabyte X58 DDR3-2000X6 UD3 CPNT3PCIEX16 2PCIE

GIGABYTE AM2+ AMD-RS780 4XDDRII-1066 5200HT

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