my uncle's mom wants me to build her a computer and i'm just looking at a cheap motherboard that has a via chipset. so are they any good? i just don't want to run into any problems down the road cause she is like 3-4 hours away.

thanks.

Via makes allot of chipsets, which in particular are you refferring to?

In the past, VIA chipsets caused grief with ATI video cards. My last gigabyte board had a VIA chipset, and I had to search for a different release to get my computer to run as it should. Was quite annoying, but once I got it working it was cool.

Alot of boards are now coming with NVIDIA chipsets - I hear nothing but good about them. Maybe see if you can find a comparable board with NVIDIA?

well at the time of posting this, i was looking at about a $50 board and most of them had via chipsets, but since i can't get all of my speakers working and because my board (nvidia chipset, biostar mb) doesn't have a gameport on it, I'm just going to take my board out and use it in my uncle's mom's computer that I'm building her and I'm going to order me a better one with a gameport on it and it will be a nvidia chipset.

i know i could just buy a gameport to usb adapter but they are $15 - $20 and that still wouldn't fix my sound problem.

so thanks everyone for your replies.

You could always try usb sound.

I didn't know you were over here. I am glad to see at least 1 other member I know. :D