ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G DDR2-1066 AMD X1250 IGP ATX Motherboard

by Asus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000O8C9RU
• Item model number: M2A-VM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006

Product Description

-Support AMD Socket AM2 CPU -AMD 690G Chipset with DDR2 800 -Integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics -PCI Express architecture with Gigabit LAN -Onboard 6-channel HD audio -4*SATA 300MB/s RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID10 - The first integrated VGA MB supports Playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs with HDCP compliant -The first MB gain a 3DMark05 score Over 1000 -Support Dual-VGA output and SurroundView -ASUS CrashFree BIOS3/EZ Flash 2/ O.C. Profile -ASUS Q-Fan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Board - Make sure it is right for you!, June 9, 2008

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Gerard Valere (Trinidad W.I.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G DDR2-1066 AMD X1250 IGP ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

Good board.

1. Not a first choice for overclocking but you can squeeze a little something out of it if you need it ;-)

2. Only ONE IDE controller, so if you want to re-use older drives, make sure that you understand that you will only be able to use TWO drives! In my case I was using SATA drives so it didn't matter.

3. Layout is good, even though it is a small board, you'll be able to use extra long video cards without bumping anything on else the mainboard.

4. Drives are pretty good, I installed Windows XP on this system, didn't need to go hunting for updates or anything like that.

5. Performance is good with the AMD 4400+, 1GB Kingston RAM, an Nvidia 7600GT (256MB) and a Seagate 160 GB SATA hard drive. Very stable. Plays Warcraft III at 1024x768 with all options set to HIGH ;-)

6. Doesn't come with a bunch of extras, just drivers Molex to SATA power cable and SATA data cable, floppy cable and IDE cable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressive For The Price, October 25, 2008

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J. Fazio "Rude Joe" (Nassau County, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G DDR2-1066 AMD X1250 IGP ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

Inexpensive "all-in-one" motherboards typically do not deliver great performance. But, I've found this one to be an exception. I'm using it in a media center PC with an AMD X2 3.0 Ghz processor and 2GB of RAM and running 64 bit Vista Premium Edition.
-It is 100% compatible with Vista and delivers quick, flawless performance.
-The onboard graphics capabilities are very good.
-Performance is good even with tasks that are very demanding of system resources such as watching/recording Blu-ray DVD and editing video.
-Very good, modern bios. PC started up without a hitch right out of the box without having to adjust anything.
-Bios supports S3 sleep mode so the PC can be woken up very quickly. This is a particulary important feature on a media center PC that you turn on with a IR remote control.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Defaults to DVI, July 29, 2008

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Mitchell Munroe "Lawndart" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS M2A-VM AM2 AMD 690G DDR2-1066 AMD X1250 IGP ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

I bought this elsewhere. The price was about the same as Amazon. It worked fine right out of the box and I am happy with it. The reason for my comment is just a word of warning. The default video setting is DVI. So if you don't have a DVI-D connector on your monitor, it will look like the board is defective.
BTW, you don't need the $79.00 gold plated DVI cable that Circutit City sells (grrrr). My $20 cable works just fine.