Quote: the on-board graphics uses shared memory and on it's got on-board sound.
Agreed onboard graphics are seriously greedy
As for the on-board sounds again some can be very poor with a Budget Motherboard
My motherboard was a top spec board which had been marked dowmn Its an old 939 Socket (new boards have the AM2 socket) The Good onboard "sound chips" are : Realtek AC'97 Audio have to look through the specs. Not there? then Think about fitting a Soundblaster Audacity Board Priced well under 20 Pounds. Old, but for the average computer user it works well
Big long article on the Subject and has clear Pics on what the Good spec Motherboards look like from the Socket side too (Tips on what does what too) BTW those Red Socket are for external SATA Hard Drives All recent Motherboard are Going to be fitted with these. Boards without them Pass on it. Price of these Drived is the Same or as the Older slower ATA drives
Final Item If you can find a 2xLAN socket Board cheap thats brilliant have to squint hard at the Numbers FireWire ? as well ASUS boards have this as standard Other boards may be only a single LAN? and You'll have to purchase a LAN card too
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