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Been out of the loop on hardware since I got a stable rig going 
Now that it has gone kaput, it's time to upgrade. The rig I'm planning is a HTPC with a full atx board. I was orginaly going for a micro-atx (ABIT NF-M2 nView) with x2 4200 65W, but came to the conclusion that I probably have better chances at finding a super stable board if I didn't limit myself with the board size. I've been an AMD guy for quite some time, but that was due to the whole bang for the buck AMD had going for itself. Now with the Core Duo chips, it doesn't seem to be the case. Should I go Intel or AMD? Here are the requirements:
-stability (no going to overclock)
-low power consumption (need to keep this rig quiet)
-fanless mobo chips
-HTPC firendly features like decent on board vga, optical out for sound
Bang for the buck is key in my case. I'll be using a geforce 7600 gs with the rig, so the onboard video is a nice to have, but not necessary. Gotta be able to play WoW, you know
Now that it has gone kaput, it's time to upgrade. The rig I'm planning is a HTPC with a full atx board. I was orginaly going for a micro-atx (ABIT NF-M2 nView) with x2 4200 65W, but came to the conclusion that I probably have better chances at finding a super stable board if I didn't limit myself with the board size. I've been an AMD guy for quite some time, but that was due to the whole bang for the buck AMD had going for itself. Now with the Core Duo chips, it doesn't seem to be the case. Should I go Intel or AMD? Here are the requirements:-stability (no going to overclock)
-low power consumption (need to keep this rig quiet)
-fanless mobo chips
-HTPC firendly features like decent on board vga, optical out for sound
Bang for the buck is key in my case. I'll be using a geforce 7600 gs with the rig, so the onboard video is a nice to have, but not necessary. Gotta be able to play WoW, you know
