Originally Posted by rangerfan

The Intel has 4 SATA ports to the MSI's 2. If you don't care about the drive option for the future, the boards are pretty much the same featurewise.

Those are big cases for MicroATX boards.

I was wrong about the Intel chip. It is a first gen dual core chip. I believe it is faster than the AMD. I'd probably go with the Intel.

The case is gonna suck. I got one of these TigerDirect systems a couple of years ago and putting the thing together took a few chunks out of my hands.

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