Excellent system builder motherboard (PCChips 810LMR)

Member Name: AndreBoyle

Product:	PCChips 810LMR
Date:	04/02/03 (2155 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, Loads rigt there in the box, Highly flexible with such a tiny form-factor

Disadvantages: Not 100% AGP compatible.

I've been using PC-Chips for years now and don't know why they keep coming under fire. I've only had about 2 motherboards ever fail and one of those was an, ahem, user induced error.

This motherboard is now housing a 2GHz processor, 1 GB of memory and a 120GB hard diskwith DVD burner. And it's running like a little dream.

The idea here is that it's everything to evry man (Or woman). Onboard you'll find :-

. 10/100 network
. 56K Modem
. Up to 64 MB TNT-2 Chipset Video shared with system memory
. Audio
. 2 PCI Slots
. 1 AGP Slot
. Can take up to 1GB SDRAM

The fact that so much comes out of the box and for under £50 i think says it all. If you're got a PC case , the floppy drive, CDROM drive, etc. Then this motherboard, a little memory and a new processor might set you back £200 for some meaty kit but it'll give you a brand-new PC which will rock right up there with heavier kit.

Fair enough though, the 3D graphica performance will never touch a stand-along card, but I've run Unreal Tournament 2003 on mine and it was more than respectable. It's always nice to know that if you want to improve the graphics you can put in your favourtite GeForce 4 should it take your fancy and voila, an even better machine.

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