First Intel Atom motherboard in webshop

On the website of a United Kingdom company, the first Intel Atom motherboard has appeared. The D945GCLF is offered as a pre-order for a price of 62 pounds incl. VAT, and is to be released in the first week of June.

The mini-ITX board of 17x17 cm has a single-core Intel Atom 230 'Diamondville' with a 1.6 GHz clockspeed and 512kB L2 cache. This processor is cooled with a small heatsink. A remarkable thing is that the northbridge cooler is significantly larger and has a fan.

On the right the Atom CPU and it's chipset in the middle

The used chipset is Intel's 82945G (ICH7) with GMA 950 onboard graphics. The board has one memory slot with support for up to 2GB (533/667) DDR2 memory. Though the board has only one PCI slot, it can be expanded to two with a special riser card. PCIe is unsupported.

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