Motherboard Recommendations

[obwolfe]

I have exhausted Google, looking for recommendations for a low end motherboard to build a Mach3 control PC. It needs to have enough power and RAM to run Mach3 on top of Windows 7.  I have always used Asus and Gigabyte motherboards in the past for other applications.  Low-end boards I have considered are:
- Gigabyte - GAM78LM-S2H
- Asus 0 M4A785-M

Any suggestions/recommendations?  Thanks in advance for your help.

Brock

[edvaness]

Any mobo with 2ghz processor and 1gb ram will do fine for mach, for win7.
Xp requires less, I'd go the xp route.

[docltf]

i just got one of these from tiger direct.so far so good.

asus m2n68-am plus      price 54.99

bill

[TOTALLYRC]

If you are using an external motion controller you don't need a lot of power. I am using a 1ghz with 512 ram with Win7 and it works great. It is an old Compac deskpro en SFF.

 I only use it to run the mill.

I have an E-machines 2+ ghz that I run the router on thru the Pport and it passed the driver test up to 100khz. XP

Was a freebie from a friend.

Nice to have friends.

Mike

[SDConcepts]

I had problems with an Asus board that had an Nvidia video chipset and driver.  i switched to gigabyte with the intel video chipset and driver all seems to be good.

[TramAlot]

msi for both amd and intel platforms, easy setup and cheap (er). tiger direct