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<p><tt>-----Robin Gilks wrote: -----<br>
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<tt>>Greetings<br>
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</tt><tt>>I've been looking for an upgrade of my trusty SD spec'ed Via Epia<br>
</tt><tt>>sp13000<br>
</tt><tt>>frontend and have been checking out Asus AMD motherboards. Many<br>
</tt><tt>>retailers<br>
</tt><tt>>seen to be confused as to which are full sized ATX and which are<br>
</tt><tt>>microATX.<br>
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</tt><tt>>As far as I can see the<br>
</tt><tt>>M3N-H/HDMI is full sized, uses the 8300 and can map 512M of video<br>
</tt><tt>>memory<br>
</tt><tt>>M3N78 PRO same<br>
</tt><tt>>M3N78VM is uATX, uses 8200 and can map 256M of video memory<br>
</tt><tt>>M3N78EM same<br>
</tt><tt>>M3N78AM same again<br>
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</tt><tt>>Is there a difference between the 8200 and 8300 IGP or are retailers<br>
</tt><tt>>getting confused about that as well since the 8300 seems to be based<br>
</tt><tt>>on<br>
</tt><tt>>the 8200GS PCI-E card chip.<br>
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</tt><tt>>Is there a 8300 based motherboard in uATX form factor that can map<br>
</tt><tt>>512M of<br>
</tt><tt>>RAM?<br>
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</tt><tt>>--<br>
</tt><tt>>Robin Gilks<br>
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</tt><tt>I have a M3N78-EM which uses the 8300. With stock BIOS 256M of video memory is the maximum. With updated BIOS 512M is the maximum.</tt></body></html>