ive actually asked about the A7N-266 VM in another thread and it seems to be a good cheap board with respectable onboard graphics and sound! its around $60 US here in australia so i think thats what ill be getting! the downside is that it doesnt support the dual channel DDR configuration but i dont know if you would use it even if you had it? im happy with one stick of 256Mb ddr to go with the asus board! if you want the option of dual channel ddr then i would say go with the MSI board! if you want a cheap solution with 1 stick of ram then go with the ASUS! i also think the MSI has 5.1 where as and the asus use's a realtek chip for sound?

correct me if im wrong!