Of the 2- Which one?

[TheGreatSatan]

Which board would you choose? I'll be using the AMD X2 BE-2300 @ 1.9GHz. Take into account that I will be using a (good) video card with it, not the onboard stuff.

ECS

MSI

[nevermind1534]

I'd go with the MSI. It takes twice the RAM and has PCIe 2.0.

[blueonblack]

Yeah, second that, go with the MSI, well worth the price difference.
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[Tavarin]

The MSI, also since it has far better onboard audio

[Zeus]

just curious, why are you limited to one of these two boards? Are there none other that suit your fancy?

[J-Roc]

I'd go with the MSI board.

The 8200 chipset is going to be far superior to the 6100 chip. It'll take advantage of newer technologies and increase performance. It'll also be more 64bit compliant should you wish to move to vista64 anytime soon. The PCI-E 2.0 will eliminate a big bottleneck when you stick in your fancy GPU. It also has a faster rated FSB which will allow higher overclocks. Holds more memory. More Sata connectors with the abillity to JBOD. 7.1 audo as opposed to 5.1 on the ECS board.

The ECS board is sub-standard in every aspect.

[TheGreatSatan]

just curious, why are you limited to one of these two boards? Are there none other that suit your fancy?

Doesn't matter. I just need a Micro ATX under $100 for my Processor. Also, needs only one PCI-E x16 slot and uses DDR2-800 RAM.

It's going into my next project (Still a secret) with a Radeon HD 3870 and 2GB RAM.

I like this one too.

[Snowman]

MSI all the way for reasons stated above before I got to this post.