CPU and memory. Would like a PCI-E slot as well as integral video.

What do you lot suggest?

To fit one of THESE

you dont want a mini-itx motherboard.

Youre right about that, small but limited expansion options.

Main uses though will be Internet, writing, a few games and disk writing. So almost anything will do providing its well provided with S-ATA and USB2 ports. IDE might be useful for putting on an OS but I think most mobos should be able to pretend that S-ATA is IDE.

mini-itx is about as suitable for games as a brick.

Mine M10000G struggles to play halflife (original) on low settings.

Plays movies great though.

if are building and all-new rig and you want cheap then I can highly recommend an Asus M2A-VM as a motherboard.  It has a decent enough onboard graphics (x1250) for playing most older games at decent settings.  

Thinking of this ASUS P5B-VM DO board but cant find any reviews of it :/

http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=371&l4=0&model=1421&modelmenu=1

Seems well packed and available for under £70

Quote from: SeriousThinking of this ASUS P5B-VM DO board but cant find any reviews of it :/

http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=371&l4=0&model=1421&modelmenu=1

Seems well packed and available for under £70

what CPU are you going for?

Just a dual core, possibly an e2160. TBH the graphics on this dont matter, I have an old Iiyama 21" and if I need to I can shove a VGA card in later.

Main reason for thinking of that one is plenty of USB and SATA headers available.

if you are goign low-end, and cost is the driving factor get one of the X2 Energy efficient CPUs.  They are about the same price as the Intel, but the motherboards are a hell of a lot cheaper.  4400/4600 would be about the level of the 2160 i think.  motherboard would be under £40, and some RAM would put you back about £12 a gig for cheapy stuff.

This is a newer version of the motherboard I use in my HTPC:

http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG33TL/index.htm

MATX
G35 chipset
X3100 graphics
Dolby Digital Live encoding onboard
4xDDR2-800 DIMMs
supports 45nm
Gigabit
12x USB 2
6x SATA-300
PCI-E 16x
PCI-E 1x
PCI 32/33
VIIV

I thought about it again and as I dont really need a powerful set-up I changed my mind and went for an E2160/mo-bo/1GB ram bundle. £116, assembled, tested & first class delivery included.

Will report back as to how much of a disaster it is

Thanks for the help