Question 1

Does it have a circuit board?

Accepted Answer

It is a circuit board though. If you mean does it have a PVM (Power Voltage Module or VRM (Voltage Regulator Module) then no it doesn't. All power is regulate by the mosfets if I'm not mistaken, but there are no PVM's or VRM's. All other expansion cards are used through PCI express slots as well. Memory is added through 240-pin DIMM slots and CPU or processor is added via 2011 pin socket 2011.

Question 2

does this mother board come with inter-grated video?  or do i need to purchase a video card for video?

Accepted Answer

It has a VGA port that's driven by the AST2300 baseband management controller which has a maximum resolution of 1900x1200. It's not great video performance but enough to get the management network setup for a headless server. If you're going to use this as a workstation with a monitor attached, you will want a real video card.

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