Intels Atom D945GCLF mini-itx
Monday, May 19th, 2008
The first online retailer to release Intel’s Atom powered motherboards was announced today. The UK based firm Tranquil PC are selling the units ten pounds cheaper than the estimated retail price. The company have stated that the boards will start shipping within the first week of June.
The Intel D945GCLF mini-itx main board yes ITX not ATX. The system uses the 1.6 GHz Atom 230 processor. The impressive package can run Vista Home Media Center which in my opinion must be a fairy good system to tackle to-days multimedia requirements.
Intel have decided to adopt their latest 45nm procedure, the processor as mentioned before runs at 1.6Ghz uses 512Kb of L2 Cache, now consider a single core AMD/ Intel processor this little machine is on par with my old 3200XP machine, actually this board is faster! The Motherboard uses the Intel 945GC/ ICH7 Intel Chipset. This means the little machine has a in-built 10/100 LAN,PCI, SATA2 (3GB/s) and DDR2 533/ 667 Mhz memory.
Did I mention the motherboard is only 17cm by 17cm. For such a little package its a brilliant starter P.C but the system is so robust that the system could even be used as a bare-bone web server.
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