Mini ITX Core Duo Motherboard

[POGE]

A Mini ITX Core Duo Motherboard has surfaced in Japan, and it is rich with features. It uses the i945GM ICH7M chipset, and it will cost about $430. It has a PCI Express slot, onboard VGA, Firewire, Sata, and more.



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[markkleb]

I got my Legos ready....

 

[Tory]

What's with the white looking slot things?

 

[POGE]

Compact flash card slots. (thanks markkleb)

 

[wazzledoozle]

$430 and it doesnt even come with a cpu..... wow.

 

[i_am_mustang_man]

oh man
with pci e that thing could be just what i need for my next big project!

(taking a ~95 scsi drive case and modding it into an all in lan box. beige and all. i need a mobo under 8.5x8.5 and that looks like the ticket)

 

[W1zzard]

ouch 430$ .. aopen is coming out with a small form factor core duo notebook soon. maybe its only 200 bucks

 

[ktr]

i am planing to to a nano-itx, which is gonna be even smaller...12cmx12cm.

 

[markkleb]

What's with the white looking slot things?

Compact flash card slots.

Some people dont use hard drives, they put the Operating systems on Compact Flash cards.

 

[Cybie1111]

Wow. 400+ bucks. Too pricey. I would probably buy one if it was half that price like the Desktop ATX versions of the 479 motherboards.

 

[markkleb]

They have SFF mobos for $99 and up. The newer ones use DDR2 and have gigabitLan.

However they arent crazy gamers yet (only PCI slot,no agp or PCIX16 yet)

 

[Sandman]

Why the f2k does it have sodimm *and* normal dimm slots? Seems like a waste of space, especially on an itx mobo.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

$430 and it doesnt even come with a cpu..... wow.

cheaper to buy a mac mini and part it out.... and you get the hdd, and cdrom aswell as cpu+ram for $600....


bad price point.

 

[Sandman]

cheaper to buy a mac mini and part it out.... and you get the hdd, and cdrom aswell as cpu+ram for $600....


bad price point.

I think the point of this unit is the pci-e slot. It's not really meant to be a mac mini kind of a unit. It could be, but there are better boards for that. This is for a tiny, portable machine that can game.

 

[Dippyskoodlez]

I think the point of this unit is the pci-e slot. It's not really meant to be a mac mini kind of a unit. It could be, but there are better boards for that. This is for a tiny, portable machine that can game.

the intel gma950 isnt really that shabby.......



for OLD... stuff...

but oblivion or BF2 on a lan pc, just use a tower.... i'd live with a lot better performancer for less price and have to lug a little bit more around... lol...

 

[XooM]

DC farm, anyone? even if it is similar to a macmini, it'd be much easier to make a farm of... a very small, very powerful, very efficient farm. and very expensive. very very expensive.