would anyone be able to tell me which motherboard is better for games and some school work. i would not be doing much overclocking but i would be using on board graphics until i could afford a good graphics card. ay help would be greatly apreciated.

Run a search for reviews through Google. Unless someone here on IW is actually using these boards, our opinions are moot.

i have a GA-7N400 Pro2
it doesn't have onboard graphics.
Although i have no complaints with it.
(You could use your geforce 2 instead of onboard?)
otherwise GA-7N400 Pro2 is great, even if you don't want to it is perfectr for overclocking

Intrepid i do belive that the Gforce would make my system quite dodgy so i would rater use the nforce chipset onboard graphics because it is better than the Gforce 2 anyday. also i need the 1.7 cel using the Gforce 2 just so i can keep mum off my back and so i dont have to use the onbaord graphics for it because it is very, very, very bad.
i could aslo just buy a Gforce 4 440MX for $69 Aust. from cworld if worse comes to worse. or there is the computer fare.

[ 03-10-2004, 03:31 AM: Message edited by: Azeral ]

Neither of those boards have onboard graphics. Both are Nforce2-ultra 400 and they have slightly different features, the 7NNXP has a DPS slot, more ethernet options and an AGP pro vs an AGP 8x slot.

For what your using it for, take your choice, both should be roughly equivalent. www.tomshardware.com will have more information.

You may find a related board with onboard graphics, in which case it will be a Geforce 4 MX, which is the best onboard graphics solution available. Might save some money.