Thread: My carputer motherboard died on me as I was about to test in car. Buying TUSI-M

I would not buy the TUSI board. It's based on the SiS 630 chipset - I had a motherboard based on this chipset (ECS P6SSM) and I had all kinds of problems: poor IDE performance, problems getting the USB drivers working properly, etc. I'm not sure if the problem was the motherboard or the chipset, but overall I was not impressed. Also, I found that the video quality of the onboard VGA was awfull, luckily my board also had an AGP slot so I was able to use another card. The Asus board you linked to did not have an AGP card, so if you decide to upgrade the video you'll need a PCI card.
If you're going to be using a PCI LCD controller, why buy a board with onboard video? Why not go with something like this board for $29? I have one of these which I'm running a Celeron 800 on and the performance has been great. Even the onboard sound is fairly good.