mATX: nForce2 or KT400?

[gearheadsmp]

I'm "up"grading to an mATX board & case, but I'm not exactly made up on whether all the onboard goodies that the Biostar/Shuttle nForce2 IGP mATX boards have are worth the installation effort, as compared to a KT400 mATX board like MSI's. I'm essentially planning to drop my MP 1600+ and two pc2100 sticks into it. I read about how nVidia released new nForce2 drivers this past week, so that solved some issues, and I've read on the nForcersHQ Linux forum that others like the IDE DMA issue can be fixed. Also, if you have an nForce2 IGP board, can you use the onboard GF4MX as a 2ndary video card (as it's on the AGP bus)?

list of nForce2 mATX boards[/i]
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"Captain, yer overloadin' her as it is. The power supply just isn't built to take two hard drrrives."

[Sohryu Asuka Langley]

Are there any good looking cases out there... like the shuttle barebones ?
I was wondering if i can buy them without motherboard, only the case.

[gearheadsmp]

mATX Cases are readily available aplenty at stores like newegg. You can just go to their 'cases' section, and do a search for 'mini-ATX - desktop', 'mini-ATX - minitower', and 'mini-ATX tower'. As far as the shuttle mb, I posted a link in my original post, with a link to a mATX board that Shuttle's going to be putting about that has all the same components of their ?SN-41G2?. Same dual-vga out. Just a little bigger formfacter and a 3rd dimm slot.

I guess I'm going to have to post on the nForcer forums to find out the answer to my question asking if you can use the nForce2's IGP as a 2nd video card (the IGP is on the AGP bus, and AFAIK, you can only have 1 AGP card on a PCI bus. But that rule only applied to AGP 2.0(1x/2x/4x), and since AGP 3.0(4x,8x) allows for multiple AGP devices, it's difficult for me to dicern.
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"Captain, yer overloadin' her as it is. The power supply just isn't built to take two hard drrrives."