Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 19, 2008 @02:28PM from the small-is-beautiful dept.

LWATCDR writes "A company out of the UK is selling an Intel Atom-based Mini-ITX motherboard. It has a riser for two PCI cards, two SATA ports, and an IDE ports so it could make a great little NAS, firewall, MAME box, or low-power workstation. To add to the fun it has a real parallel port 'perfect for hardware hacking,' a real RS-232 port 'perfect for data acquisition,' and two USB ports. The price is around $100, give or take, and hopefully it will come down over time. All in all a nice system to run Linux, WindowsXP, BSD, or maybe even OpenSolaris on."

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Way out of date chip set and you can better boards by Joe+The+Dragon · 2008-05-19 14:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

Way out of date chip set and you can better boards at the same price for amd and intle systems. 1 667 drr2 ram simm? No gig-e, no DVI, no pci-e, no firewire and so on.

For $100 or less you can get a 780g board with hdmi / DVI, much better on board video, 4 ram slots, pci-e and pci slots, side port ram (some boards), firewire (some boards), gig-e port, and you can use ati hyper flash on them. 740g ones cost less.