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System: Ultimate Budget Box  Ars Technica's System Guide returns
with a twist: a low-cost, ultimate budget …  Build your own on
the cheap        The Ultimate Budget Box motherboard has one key
difference from the standard Budget Box motherboard ? it must
have onboard video. The nForce2 IGP is a proven solution
offering onboard video, sound, and Ethernet like most of today's
all-in-one integrated chipsets also available from Intel, SiS,
ATI, and VIA.  The MSI K7N2GM-L and other nForce2 IGP
alternatives such as the Asus A7N8X-VM/400 or Abit NF7-M also
offer similar performance. Feel free to consider others aside
from our recommendation on the AMD side of things, including
single-channel memory (nForce2 400) nForce2 boards if they are
significantly cheaper. Memory bandwidth should not be an issue
for most potential users of the Ultimate Budget Box and Athlon
XPs do not take the gigantic performance hits going from dual
channel to single channel that I