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Access I/O NANO I/O Server CD is small, but powerful

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Sep 21st 2007 No Comments

The NANO board is just a motherboard that is being touted as Nano-ITX even though one of its dimensions is 2mm larger than the Nano-ITX form factor allows for. The motherboard has an IDE port, a CF card slot, and gets its processing power from an ETX module.
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Other ports include Ethernet, VGA out, 4 USB ports, 3.5mm jacks for both audio in and out, and PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse. There are also a couple of serial ports and PC/104-Plus expansion with both ISA and PCI bus stacking connectors.

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VIA EPIA SN features 1.8GHz Processor

By James Allan Brady on Monday, Sep 17th 2007 1 Comment

VIA has launched another mini-ITX motherboard with an integrated CPU. This one however is the fastest motherboard they have ever launched that fits in a mini-ITX footprint.
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The full model name is the VIA EPIA SN18000G, and it uses the CN896 IGP chipset. That means it has integrated graphics that are DX9 compatible and can do MPEG-2 acceleration with hardware. However there is a PCIe x16 slot should you choose to upgrade to a better graphics card.

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ECS 671T-M – SiS671 based motherboard

By Ewdison Then on Wednesday, Jul 25th 2007 4 Comments

ECS is best known for its low cost motherboard and the new 671T-M motherboard is no different. The board uses SiS671 chipset and claimed to be compatible with Vista. The board will support Intel Core 2 Duo/ Pentium D/ Pentium 4/ Celeron D processors, and DDR2-667/533 memory up to 4GB.

ECS 671T-M - SiS671 based low cost motherboard

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Asus unveils P5K3 Premium motherboard with 2GB DDR3 onboard

By Chris on Friday, Jul 13th 2007 3 Comments

Asus has just introduced an interesting new motherboard that moves away from the traditional idea of RAM. Instead of giving you a set of DIMM slots, they just integrated 2GB of DDR3 1333 MHz memory onto their new P5K3 Premium motherboard.

Asus P5K3

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ASUS get overwhelmingly serious with Blitz Extreme gaming motherboard

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 2nd 2007 1 Comment

Are you a hardcore gamer? Are you kept awake at night worrying about how your graphics data might be colliding with other data rushing through your PCIe channels? Well, you could either go see your doctor and be prescribed some serious strength sleeping tablets, or you could bite the bullet and invest in ASUS’ latest gaming motherboard, the Blitz Extreme.

ASUS ROG Blitz Extreme Motherboard

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VIA debuts new Mini-ITX board

By Chris on Wednesday, Jun 27th 2007 No Comments

VIA EPIA LT If you’re in the market for a smaller-than-usual motherboard, chances are you’ll end up with a Mini-ITX board, as it is increasingly growing in popularity. VIA has several different boards based on this form-factor, and have just recently released a new one.

The VIA EPIA LT features dual-LAN and dual LVDS and comes with either a 1.5GHz or 1.0GHz processor. If you’re looking for a silent configuration, you’ll want to go with the 1.0GHz model. It has a variety of I/O ports including four (yes four) COM ports, a PCI slot and 6 USB ports.

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Shuttle plans to sell standalone XPC motherboards

By Ewdison Then on Monday, Jun 4th 2007 1 Comment

SFF enthusiast loves Shuttle. The maker of the famous XPC small form factor desktop has announces that it will be selling XPC’s motherboard as a standalone product. So if you own a Shuttle XPC, you can upgrade your system to a newer motherboard and CPU without having to buy a whole XPC barebones anymore. There are no information yet if these boards can be use in generic ATX cases (I don’t see why not with some case mods).

Shuttle plans to sell standalone XPC motherboards

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Via ship Pico-ITX micro-motherboard

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 22nd 2007 3 Comments

We wrote about the Pico-ITX form-factor back in January, calling Via’s 100 x 72mm motherboard “the new standard” in micro computing; well, the first design to hit the shelves is the EPIA PX10000G, complete with a 1GHz C7 CPU and support for up to 1GB of SDRAM.

VIA Pico-ITX EPIA PX10000G

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Gigabyte mini-DTX motherboard offers compact dual-core grunt

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 15th 2007 No Comments

Looking at Intel’s new mini-ITX board that Scott wrote about earlier, but disappointed by the Celeron 215 processor? Gigabyte might have the answer with their slightly-larger but still compact Churchill mini-DTX motherboard, capable of sporting CPUs from the Athlon 64 or Sempron single or dual-core ranges.

Gigabyte Churchill mini-DTX motheboard

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Intel announces Mini ITX board

By Chris on Tuesday, May 15th 2007 2 Comments

Mini ITX boards are great, especially for those that love to mod and build custom machines. Intel has taken an interest in the standard and will be releasing their own Mini ITX board named Little Valley D201GLY.

Little Valley D201GLY