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Carter Manucy wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have spent some 3 hours searching for a similiar board that is NOT a
mini. Have not found anything even close.
Nothing wrong with a mini ATX except that I personally like the larger
real estate, and all of my boxes are large towers (that I always leave
wide open, and nobody agrees with the concept :-) ), and with 500 W +/-
power supplies.
My questions are:
1. Is there a full size ATX that will accomplish the same tasks?
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Of course - but nowadays you're going to be looking at more of a
'workstation' class board.
Try this on for size...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151030">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151030</a>
You can find more of the same here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2000200302+1071317743&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=302">http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2000200302+1071317743&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=302</a>
There are other (mfgs) that have ATX-size boards, but Asus & Tyan are the
ones I'm most familiar with - I haven't had experience with many of the
others (DFI, Foxconn, etc).
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<pre wrap="">2. What does the VM and the CSM stand for in the Asus part number?
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IIRC, "VM" in Asus land means built-in video, but I could mistaken on that.
-Carter
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& I *think* the VM is for 'built-in video, Micro-ATX'. $0.02, no
more, no less ....<br>
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