what MoBo's have on board GPU's that can play WoW?

[Yo-Yo Freak]

i have been looking at motherboards and reading reviews and everything and it is all kind of confusing. basically what i'm looking for is the cheapest mobo with an on board graphics card that can run wow at lowest setting with a maximum of 15-20 fps out in the world and maybe like 10 fps in citys (probably not including shatt or dalaran), this is just running 1 instances of wow. i know that most of the onboards can run it but i'm looking for the cheapest one that can. the rest of the system will consist of 2G of RAM and a dual core cpu at 1.9ghz.

if you have used a cheap board with kind of what i am looking for if you wouldn't mind posting a link to it i would extremly apreciate it!

oh and the CPU will be an AMD Athlon X2 BE-2300 Brisbane 1.9GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor .

i was looking at this mobo but i am still very unsure of what exactly is needed to do what i want.

and if it helps the computer will only be used for wow, nuthing else at all except maybe browsing the internet on rare occasions.

Thanks in advance everybody! ^_^

~YYF

[Herc130]

No, do not get a 740G board. Get a 9300/9200, 8300/8200, 780G or G45. In that order.

A 740G is an HD2100 IGP. I am sure it will play WoW, but it is not the top IGP's out there, probably on par with a 6100 and from exp, the 6100 lags.

A 780G is an HD3200 IGP. It will play WoW and is one of the best IGPs currently. (also, 790G's are HD3300)

9300/9200 and 8300/8200 is I think all 8200nv IGPs. The 8300/8200 are AMD and I think the 9300/9200 will be intel. These are supposedly the best IGP's, slightly better then the HD3200.

G45 is intel and is supposedly just behind the 780G's and 8200's. I wouldn't bother with it myself, but no doubt it will run WoW well enough for box accounts.

Personally, I am probably going to build 2 more box account computers using either a zotac ITX 9300 mobo with PCIe x16 slot , built in wifi and LGA775 socket. Pair it up with a low wattage intel cpu. I'd guess these will be in the $150 or over area



Or get the mATX version which should be uner $100 a board.

Of what's available now, the 780G's would be the least expensive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...nd&Order=PRICE

They have several under $80. I'd get the foxxcon or asrock if I were going for cheapest ($69)

[-silencer-]

790GX with HD3300 onboard video.. that'll be the best overall onboard gaming. Since you seem to being going for as cheap of a board as possible, this stands out at $100:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138128

I'd prefer to spend a little more for a DFI, Asus, or Gigabyte model.. preferably mATX so I could fit it in a small case too.

[Yo-Yo Freak]

ok so with all this considered i put together a budget build on NewEgg. here is what i put together. its just about as cheap as i could get it at $230 (not including monitor, OS ect.). how would this handle wow on lowest settings? anything that i could improve on while keeping the cost roughly the same? all input helps ^_^

thanks again everybody! ^_^

~YYF

[-silencer-]

Yo-yo. If you REALLY want to game on integrated graphics, spend the extra $30 on a 790GX/HD3300 motherboard. The HD3200 only runs at 500MHz, and while the HD3300 is the exact same architecture, it's 700MHz. That's a big difference in graphic performance. Also, many 780G/HD3200 boards only have 64MB of on-board display cache, while all 790GX/HD3300 boards I've seen have 128MB of on-board display cache. In addition, the 790GX/HD3300 will allow you to use ATI's Hybrid Tech, which means you can add an inexpensive ATI card (HD3450/3470 work) in a semi-crossfire mode later for extra performance.

It's a no-brainer. Spend the extra $30 to have much better on-board graphics processing.. you'll want it.

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