My research revealed that Socket 775 mini-itx motherboards are extremely over priced. Fortunately I found one reasonably priced board from Zotac. The Zotac NF610I-K-E
The build went without incident. Setting it up was about as easy as it gets. I installed 4 GB of DDR2-800 ram. Windows 7 found and installed all of the drivers. Performance was on par with the MSI G31 motherboard the processor previously ran on. Graphics seems slightly better on the Zotac board due to the onboard ION video.
The Ark case had room to spare for the motherboard and provided more than adequate cooling.
It was a good build and yielded a reasonably fast computer at minimal cost.


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