I'm a noob doing research before my 1st PC build, and am getting a mini tower case.

My question is, I want a decent motherboard but don't want to waste money or ram on an integrated or onboard video card.  

Is this an option for a micro ATX board? 

I hear the 8600 is not that great...you would be better off with like a 7950 or 7900gsdarkmagician06

I'm sure it is, I wanted to leave the DX10 option available though, I'll probably only be playing CS Source and Starcraft 2 which is DX10 compatible.   

[QUOTE="darkmagician06"]I hear the 8600 is not that great...you would be better off with like a 7950 or 7900gsLouieV13

Thanks, what would you say is the least expensive 8600 what would be worth getting, that one?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT - I WILL NOT BE OVERCLOCKING AT ALL IF THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

counter-thread!

Its the Half-Life of RTS games. 

superkoolstud

Well put.

[QUOTE="KingsofQueens"]The real question is: Where are all the latest 3rd party games info for Wii? freeload

Indeed. I keep hearing about all this 3rd party support but all I see is a few throw away titles that clearly were developed in a few months and were just created to cash in on the Wii's casual gaming market...

So, you choose to ignore the 4 or 5 big developer games announced in the past few weeks, like Soul Calibur Legends?

[QUOTE="cakeorrdeath"]This sight will get interesting once they have got to the end of info we already know.danneswegman

sight or site? 

sighte