Hi all, Need to replace mb and cpu and i am looking for a hdmi atx board that takes dual channel ddr, can be either intel or amd based anything close would be appreciated Cheers

Search for AMD 780G motherboards.  They have very good on-board graphics with HDMI & DVI output as well as supporting dual channel DDR2.  I'm not sure there would be anything out there which supports DDR1 (if that is what you are referring to).

If I were building my HTPC from scratch that is what I would go for.  Combine it with a low energy AMD CPU such as the 4450E and you'll have a very good system!

If you're in the UK (which given the "Cheers" is likely), here are some links:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=845045

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=807039

Alistair

I've paired a gigabyte ga ma780gpm ds2h board with a 4850e processor and its all working out really well (except one niggling problem). I've a build log here:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/287521.aspx

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I can't agree more with asm495.

I recently flashed my bios  which killed my motherboard So I replaced it with a board with integrated nvidia 8200 (http://www.jwele.com/motherboard_detail.php?348).  It just did not want to play nice I was unable to get the hardware decoding to work, also had an issue with wake on lan.


Eventually gave up and went with AMD 780G motherboard (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142347), was all working within a few hours. Am very pleased.

Hi All, Thanks for the advice, have ordered the parts and yep uk lol