Recommend me a micro ATX board!

AMD2400 · 4th May 2008, 6:13 PM

Recently i got myself a p180 mini and been wondering what board i should put in it.

I have had been set on getting a Giga-byte G33-DS2R mainly because its got RAID support, and also could use two ATI graphics cards in it.

But looking at the other options, i could get myself a ASUS p5e-vm HDMI, coz its black

and matches my case perfectly.

Are there any other boards i am missing? is there any ABIT, DFI, MSI motherboards that are as good as the boards above?.

I definately plan to overclock my E2180, and it looks like im going to go crossfire because of them cheap 3850's that are around.

I read somewhere that DFI plan to make a crossfire / sli mATX boards as soon as the p45, or nVidia's new chipsets come out. but i dont wanna have my p180 lying around till the end of the year for them to come.

AMD2400.

McbLt · 4th May 2008, 11:06 PM

The AMD 780G chipset boards are pretty popular right now. Gigabyte have a couple and I'm pretty sure Asus does too.

*edit* sorry, misread your post that you've already gota 2180!

chestRcopRpot · 5th May 2008, 12:00 AM

I've got both G33-DS2R and ASUS p5e-vm HDMI and they are both great mobo's.

The asus doesnt have open ended 4x pcie slot so can't crossfire in that.

4th May 2008, 6:13 PM	#1
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4th May 2008, 11:06 PM	#2
McbLt Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Adelaide, SA 5000 Posts: 1,102	The AMD 780G chipset boards are pretty popular right now. Gigabyte have a couple and I'm pretty sure Asus does too. edit sorry, misread your post that you've already gota 2180! Last edited by McbLt; 5th May 2008 at 8:28 AM.

5th May 2008, 12:00 AM	#3
chestRcopRpot Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Townsville, QLD Posts: 2,671	I've got both G33-DS2R and ASUS p5e-vm HDMI and they are both great mobo's. The asus doesnt have open ended 4x pcie slot so can't crossfire in that.