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mATX vs ATX?

Oblivion86

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Hello,

I have my eye on a mATX AM2+ board with PCI-e 2.0 compliance and 8gb total RAM (a big step up form my current mobo), it costs 50 pounds and is made by MSI (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148368). However a friend on Skype told me to "steer clear, it's mATX", what does he mean? Are mATX boards seen as inferior? Or do MSI not make good mATX boards? I am a bit confused on this matter :laugh:.
 
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The only difference is size. And because of size less expansion slots and the likes. Quality wise there is no reason not to get mATX.
 

Oblivion86

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Processor AMD Sempron LE-1250 2.2ghz (Sparta)
Motherboard Foxconn K8M890M2MA-RS2H
Cooling 120mm Front Intake, 80mm Rear Exhaust
Memory 2x1gb Patriot PC2-6400 800mhz
Video Card(s) Gainward Bliss NVidia GeForce 7600GT 256mb GDDR3
Storage 300gb Seagate SATA, 80gb Samsung IDE, 160gb Samsung External USB
Display(s) Dell 22" CRT
Case Alien Blue Badged
Audio Device(s) Realtek AC97 Onboard
Power Supply 450w CCiVO Quiet (22a12v)
Software Windows XP Professional SP3, Steam:70 games
Thanks, glad there's no functional difference. I couldn't see the point in forking out another 15-25 pounds just for 1 more pci slot and 1 more pci-ex1 slot :rolleyes:.
 
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