looked up the prices to see what the ASUS and the VIA look like side by side?
VIA has little to no room for expansion at all with having only 1 PCI slot
you can add a Serial or ULTRA IDE interface, but if your video blows you either
get a new mom board, or pull the drives and pop in a PCI video card. 1 stick of
512 or 1 gig ram is fine unless the socket gets flaky.
I know you have the same thing with the video in an AGP slot, if it goes kerplunk
you are stuck with a PCI vid card and if the #1 ram socket says suckit you have end up
one slot short of booting.
Thing is, all on board mother boards had some serious issues for years and I learned
to dislike them out of hand...
You should check on some sites with write ups on that or similar VIA mom boards to see
if there was any issues 13 months down the road or not.
Thing is, if the price is right and your not to worried that something simple fizzing
will dink your system, it could be what you want.
me, no... Not because of performance or anything, but proven stability and MTFR in the
past for all in one motherboards scares me frankly
Here is a VIA with a little room to expand and or recover priced at $88.00
http://www.motherboards.com/product_info.php?products_id=21132&
