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Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

$110.00 Est. at Amazon

from Jeff, www.newegg.com
and it costs $3.
from EverReadyUSMC, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: intel get with the program and put a quality chipset fan on this board, it would only cost you a dollar more to put a maglev fan from sunon on it and save all the pain and hassle that
from Mad MAC, www.newegg.com
visiting friends and relatives love it especially when they find out how little it costs and energy it consumes and yet still can do so much!
from www.amazon.com
the total cost of everything including a multifunction card reader, case, 250g drive, dvd burner, motherboard and 1g memory was under $300.
from JWray, www.newegg.com
i was really hoping that it could make a low cost htpc to play hulu/netflix/etc.

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

2 RECOMMENDED by 10 people for COST

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

$73.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
i started with a brisbane am2 5600+ to keep costs down, but it's nice to know it will support whatever i through at it in the future.
from GMKosMos, www.newegg.com
if i had to recommend a cheap cost effective no frills board, this would be it.
from Never Last, www.newegg.com
unless if you are a gamefreak well you prefer another motherboard that cost at least 109+ cons: well.
from glaverneflambeau, www.newegg.com
they cut down on rma costs by wasting enough of your time that you just give up.
from Boomhauer, www.newegg.com
i needed a low cost but fairly modern board for 24/7 use and this one went together and booted up perfectly.

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

3 RECOMMENDED by 11 people for COST

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

$66.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
however, it just wasn't worth the cost to use a full-sized mobo with more sata ports on board.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it was a cost cutting measure that saves the consumer 10 dollars on the board.
from BigDaddy, www.newegg.com
although, it is not as super feature rich as motherbaords costing 2-3x as much but you still get a big bang for your buck.
from Johnny, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: used it to make a home server, but frankly it's probably more stable than a board i bought less than 2 years ago for 5 times the cost.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
for a little over a benjamin, you can meet or beat motherboard/cpu combos costing 5 times as much!

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

4 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for COST

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

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from Krosor, www.newegg.com
a new product in direct competition against it's projected best seller for the x58 architecture, but i don't think it was for the inconvenient cost of the sas ports, saving them a whopping $15 bucks.
from twka90, www.newegg.com
it costs about twice as much as my previous mobo from a few years ago.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
this system is blazing fast and the motherboard offers nearly everything that the other mobos that cost $100+ more offer and nearly identical, if not faster gaming/real world benchmark scoring.imo,
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i have static from it, i use a pair of professional digital headphones that cost about 300$, so i expect good sound quality.
from jpdevers, www.newegg.com
no big deal really, since sata dvd drives cost pretty much nothing.

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Positives: Easy To Install, Great Performance, High Quality, Socket LGA1366

5 RECOMMENDED by 8 people for COST

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

$51.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
my "low-cost" set up is going to double in cost pretty soon and for just a dumb adapter!!!
from mearsbigboy1990, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: awesome build cheap cost!!
from Shawn, www.newegg.com
check, check, and check.with support for the x2 processors from amd i had my choice of several low power, low cost cpu's practically tailor made for my needs.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
purchase priorities was am2+ support, built in dvi, and of course low cost.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: they won't send you a rebate check so make sure to figure that into the cost when comparing boards.

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

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from wasp, www.newegg.com
i was impressed with cost , features , looks , reviews and it ran without a hitch .
from N/A, www.newegg.com
recommend this board for low cost quick build.
from slappy1eye, www.newegg.com
8 usb portslower cost compared to other comparable boards with same features.
from dc, www.newegg.com
i guess for the price is more than enough for what you get, i just see more potential which would not had affected the cost.
from Peter, www.newegg.com
pentium e5300 was recycled from my prev pc, also the g.skill 4gb ddr2 800, for a good low cost choice.gigabyte website is excellent.

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

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

$97.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it's cost effective and ruggedly reliable.
from Mandarin, www.newegg.com
the low cost makes this board an overall value.
from Raymond Day, www.newegg.com
look at other mini-itx not as good and cost about $200!
from IowaGuy, www.newegg.com
course, if i went dual core i'd want 2 gigs of ram....so now we are 50% higher cost....gotta draw the line somewhere.
from Dave, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: the computer i built with this board cost me right about $200 with shipping and tax included.

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

ASUS Rampage Extreme

$350.00 Est. at Amazon

from zeppelin, www.newegg.com
the thing that worries me most about a board like this is that less people will own it due to cost.
from Terence Nolan, www.newegg.com
ddr3 ram cost me $200 more than ddr2.
from |TDW| DARK_ALCOLYTE, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: thus instead of purchasing a single gtx 285 this year, i instead dropped my support of nvidia in favor of the more cost/effective overclocking friendly ati 4800 series.i now run dual
from Hank, www.newegg.com
cons: cost other thoughts: at first i had a hard time justifying this board due to the cost.
from Hank, www.newegg.com
cons: cost other thoughts: if you install vista 32 then most of the boards components will work after installing vista.

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

Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0

$78.00 Est. at Amazon

from knucklebusted, www.newegg.com
works well with 2x2g g.skill memory and amd athlon ii x4 2.6 chip for a low cost upgrade for windows 7 x64.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: not sure why everyone adheres to the notion that because something is less costly or new in the market that it is middle of the road.
from LoBuck, www.newegg.com
pros: low cost board that works with the low cost 9600 quad core processor.

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

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

$75.00 Est. at Amazon

from SJO, www.newegg.com
the board is inexpensive and provided a very cost effective upgrade.
from geeky old guy, www.newegg.com
pros: low cost, many features.
from oni2002, www.newegg.com
-i can't seem to disable the onboard videocard, and 32bit os's only recognize 2.5 gb ram.(64-bit recognizes 4gb)-slow boot(not the part when windows boots, before that)-the memory slots are too

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

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

$63.00 Est. at Amazon

from Scootah, www.newegg.com
for memory so you can adjust to your own liking but other than that it made a $160 pc build seem like it shoulda cost $300+
from Thursday, www.newegg.com
it fixed the others at a cost of $250 each.
from Cornhead, www.newegg.com
he wanted to keep costs low, and i had never built a low-end pc before.
from Mike, www.newegg.com
only one ide connection, which may be a concern because as in my case, i'm using old hardware to keep costs down.
from loopback, www.newegg.com
i wanted to go quad but not ready to shell out the cost.

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

P6t Deluxe

$285.00 Est. at Amazon

from FG, www.newegg.com
i guess the few dollars it cost to add a sas controller (which in this case is pretty good) was too much for a $300 board.
from tlite, www.newegg.com
i am only disgruntled by the fact that i had to ship it back at my cost, but they pre-authorized another p6t deluxe for me, didn't give me any hassles and legitimately tried to help out.
from Pat, www.newegg.com
cons: cost could be lower.
from Nick, www.newegg.com
cons: the cost is high, but this board performs great and has a lot of stuff built in (sas/sata raid, high-end audio, external sata, tons of usb ports...

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Positives: Easy To Install, Excellent Performance, Nice Reliability, Compatible Processors: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition

Foxconn Destroyer

$130.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i was a asus fan for years and hestitated on buying this board due to the cost.
from CDRN, www.newegg.com
cost this board an egg.
from Iggman, www.newegg.com
cons: pci-e 1x is in the worst possible spot, even with just one graphics card it is covered up, they should have just left it out to reduce the cost xd pci will be rendered useless if you have 3x

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

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

$102.00 Est. at Amazon

from baddassng, www.newegg.com
if you want a fan just get a new heatsink too it wont be costly.all the inputs and outputs you need...which are crazy for a board this cheap.easy install...no crashes...works fine.
from BobinBaltimore, www.newegg.com
the on-bard hdmi plus a cheap lg blu-ray drives means that i have a blu-ray player plus a fully functional vmc at a very low cost.
from csterl, www.newegg.com
very good quality hdmi (imho) especially for a low cost media center pc.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
pros: for the cost of the board cant complain to much cons: the pci express is to close to the pci 2 location, when i my video card in fan covers 1 of the 2 pci locations.

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

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

$147.00 Est. at Amazon

from GeGabyte, www.newegg.com
onboard graphics allowed me to cut the cost of an add-on video card while still getting decent video performance.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
this is a great board for cost cons: none so far
from katapaltes, www.newegg.com
i don't need them, but somebody will, and leaving them as headers keeps costs down.
from Cats are Back, www.newegg.com
only one minor issue costing an egg.

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

Intel Desktop Board DG41TY

$91.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
(see other thoughts) other thoughts: i found this board to be a very easy to use and configure board for a basic low cost build i did for a client.i used a intel pentium e5200 cpu
from NYGuy, www.newegg.com
their mistake cost me time and money.
from Chris M, www.newegg.com
pros: great board for the low cost.

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

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

$98.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
built with antec 900 this mobo, and so on, total cost being short of 5 bills.
from Grandma's Boy, www.newegg.com
great build quality and design for a cheap board but gigabyte has the knack ounce in a while for good boards that don't cost alot.
from Snakes, www.newegg.com
pros: excellent array of features, especially for the cost.

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

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI Motherboard (132-BL-E758-A1)

$396.00 Est. at Amazon

from AJ, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: for the pocket change it would cost evga, they should include some 3 to 4 pin adapters with their mobos...
from Peezy, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: this board costs a lot.
from Takman6, www.newegg.com
i don't know yet how to resolve this but will cost an egg for now.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
other thoughts: i owned 4 evga boards before,but with this board,bad communications and costumer representative non knowledge they loosed me .
from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: i am using antec 300 cabinet and i found it great cabinet at low cost - and it works great with asus motherboards.

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

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

$138.00 Est. at Amazon

from Coarch, www.newegg.com
this is my defacto server motherboard because of the low cost and 0 operational issues.
from Posi, www.newegg.com
it is still low cost.
from Grubbworm, www.newegg.com
with this setup i kept my cost to $600.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
i have had everything from the high cost to the low cost.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
it cost me 10 to rma it and it took 13 days.

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

ASUS 90-MIB850-G0EAY00Z

$283.00 Est. at Amazon

from N/A, www.newegg.com
cons: unfortunately, this board cost a bit more without any sort of built-in graphics.
from Mrav8er, www.newegg.com
cons: no show stoppers here.the only negative i noticed was that asus typically adds a alot of accesories in with their boards that cost north of 200 and this one, other than the external poster
from RaptureMe, www.newegg.com
oh and did i mention it didn't cost me an arm and a leg??it sports 2 full 32x sli/crossfire pci-ex 2.0 slots,has a reset bios from the out side of the case.also has a neat feature where the power

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Positives: Excellent Performance, Easy To Install, High Quality, Socket LGA1366

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Best Motherboards for Cost

Intel - Single Unit uiTX 945G Atom330 BOXD945GCLF2

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

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

ASUS P6T Deluxe V2

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

Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L

Intel D945GCLF 533FSB DDR2 667 533 Audio Video

ASUS Rampage Extreme

Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0

Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L

ASUS MB P5KPL-CM C2D LGA775 INTELG31 ICH7 DDR2

P6t Deluxe

Foxconn Destroyer

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H

Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H 991443028

Intel Desktop Board DG41TY

Socket Am2 Amd770 4 X Ddr2 16gb- Ga-ma770-ud3

EVGA X58 LGA1366 Intel ATX SLI 132-BL-E758-A1

Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H

ASUS 90-MIB850-G0EAY00Z

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