Why you don't want to connect the thermistors? You don't have them? Why you want to get something else that does what your board already does?
I can't understand the question here, but thermistor = resistor. If you read the specs of a standard thermistor they said 100k, so if you don't have a thermistor to connect to your board, just go to radio shack and get a potentiometer 100k and fake your thermistor (do not connect your heater cartridge nor heater bed).