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Mini-ITX Motherboard with Intel Active Management Technology

ieiIEI Technology Corp. have announced their first Mini-ITX motherboard with Intel Active Management Technology. This mini motherboard is build with 32 nm Intel® Core(TM) i7/i5 processors, KINO-QM57A features Mobile Intel® QM57 Express chipset for optimized playback and transmission of video for digital signage, surveillance, security monitoring, and public infotainment. Intel Active Management Technology 6.0 enables remote control and monitoring over network.

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ASRock A330ION – World first DDR3 + ION motherboard!

Asrock 330ionAsrock have presented their new mini motherboard powered by Intel® Atom 330 Dual Core processor. Motherboard is based on NVIDIA’s ION that can support Full HD media playback. A330ION is featuring dual channel DDR3 1066 memory support, 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot and Gigabit Ethernet.

What is so special in this mini motherboard? It is first motherboard with NVIDIA® MCP7A-ION chipset and DDR3 memory support! Other ION based constructions can support only DDR2. We will still have to wait for some benchmarks to get to know what this motherboard is really worth. But it is looking really promising!

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DFI P55 MI-T36 Reviewed

DFI MI P55 T36DFI have presented its Mini-ITX form factor motherboard a couple of months ago. I have already been writing about DFI P55 MI-T36 before. It is looking very promising as this model may be more useful in your desktop computer than most of mini motherboards currently available on the market.

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ECS TIGT-I – motherboard with passively cooled dual core Intel Atom

ElitegroupElitegroup Computer Systems® (ECS) announces a new mini motherboard model based on the PineTrail platform with full support for S-ATA and PCI-E on southbridge with a mysterious name TIGT-I.

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Fanless Mini-ITX Asus AT3N7A-I with heatpipes!

Fanless Mini-ITXAsus AT3N7A-I can really be totally fanless! I have reported about possibility to get rid of original fans when you have good computer case with fans. But it looks that you may go even deeper! You can build a totally silent dual core Intel Atom platform with ION chipset onboard!

One of our readers have sent us a pictures of his setup. He have removed all fans from motherboard and have no any case fans! And temperatures are looking really good! He made it with heatpipes and two big heatsinks that are a part of his computer case (Coolermaster TC-100).

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Mini-ITX LANParty motherboard from DFI

LANParty MI P55 T36It looks that DFI have extended their offer with Mini-ITX LANParty motherboard with Intel P55 Express Chipset. LANParty motherboards are very popular so probably this one will find a lot of fans in the Mini-ITX world. More detailed specification may be found on DFI website right here. I believe it may be really hot selling product. Would you buy this motherboard? Does it fit your needs?

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Fanless Asus AT3N7A-I?

Passive coolingA lot of Mini-ITX fans are wondering if this motherboard can run fanless? There were some tests made by many motherboard reviewers. But all they did was disconnecting power from working motherboard… With such tries the CPU temperature got dangerous values…

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Uses for your old Mini-ITX motherboard?

VIASome time ago I have been asked by my friend about possible uses of old Mini-ITX motherboard. He told me that he have found a passively cooled VIA EPIA-PD in some old media equipment at his work that was not needed anymore. He told me that this is only 600Mhz processor… It is not worth anything… I was almost shocked. 600Mhz is really a lot for a passively cooled computer that has only 9 to 15 watts power consumption!

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The first Mini-ITX motherboard with socket LGA 1156 from Intel

intelDuring the IDF conference Intel have presented a motherboard in mini-ITX form factor with support for the latest Intel Core i5 and i7 (and future Core i3) with Socket LGA 1156. Motherboard is based on Intel’s H57 chipset, and contains practically all that is necessary to create a small HTPC computer. On this mini motherboard that is sized 17 x 17 cm we can find two slots for DDR3 memory, PCI-Express x16 slot and four SATA 3.0 Gbps ports. On the rear panel there are six USB 2.0 connectors and one HDMI, DVI, RJ-45 and eSATA.  This motherboard as most in Mini-ITX format will have integrated graphics chipset onboard.

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New ZOTAC ION ITX-E & ITX-G Synergy Edition

ZOTAC ION ITX-E Synergy EditionZOTAC have announced a new ION ITX (more about ION ITX series here) motherboards from Synergy Edition. This motherboards just as previous in this series are capable to play full HD 1080p Blu-ray video thanks to NVIDIA® ION™ technology. ZOTAC ION ITX-E Series is powered by single-core Intel® Atom™ 230 while the ION ITX-G Series have the dual-core Intel® Atom™ 330 processor – both clocked at 1.6 GHz.

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