Intel Desktop Board D201GLY2 - motherboard - mini ITX - SiS662

Advantages: Mini with many features
Disadvantages: poor floating point

...degrees C. It boots a full copy of windows XP Pro in 43 seconds and boots windows embedded in cleanly under 30 seconds. -------------------------------------------------------------- Specifications -------------------------------------------------------------- The device itself is a mini-itx motherboard as such it is 17cm by 17cm in area. However the device is stuffed full of extra bits and bobs as shown below; Processor VIA C3™/ VIA Eden™ EBGA processor 1300MHz Chipset VIA CN400 North Bridge VIA VT8237 South Bridge System Memory 1 DDR266/333/400 DIMM socket Up to 1GB memory size VGA Integrated VIA UniChrome™ Pro AGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoder /MPEG-4 Accelerator IDE / SATA (For Hard drives or Optical drives) 2 X UltraDMA 133/100 Connector 2 SATA Connectors Onboard devices VIA VT6103 10... Read review

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Advantages: very fast processor support, hyper theading technology, everything to do with it.
Disadvantages: some limited support for older hardware and even software in some cases

..., so these came in handy in the end. ♦Why did I need this and what persuaded me to buy it ♦ Well, as I have said before in my other reviews, I do a lot of image, video and audio editing, so I need the speed and reliability that my old motherboard did not have, so I looked for this one instead. I needed something that was going to be able to handle large data, and be able to handle it at very fast speeds as well. I really was starting to get annoyed with my old motherboard, it was slow, unreliable, didn’t support the newest hardware and most of all, didn’t support my graphics card, which, after all , was the most important thing. As I said above, I needed to change very quickly as I had brought loads of new hardware, and I needed something to support it all, so I went for this little marvel, the Intel Desktop Board D... Read review

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Advantages: The stuff is weel packed, with all features and the drivers are compatible to Linux.
Disadvantages: high speed, causes high bridge and CPU temperature. Use xtra Fans/heat sinks

...The motherboard is rocking. I have all the cool features on it at a descent price. the only issue was the heating of the bridge which was easily colled by placing a fan on top of it. I rocks with Suse, Ubuntu Linux and Windows 2003 Server edition. Matrix storage tech with Intel RAID helped me to use my old 40 GB HDD via SATA converter, to create a RAID volume to store my critical files. Even in Linux we can do the same using dmraid module. Goes with NVIDIA Card as accelerator on the PCI express slot. Additional Power supply output on the Mother board helps us to use the same for controller cards (in my case SATA-IDE cards for my HDD). Supports more than 4 GB RAM (1GB X 4 slots). VMWARE Virtualization compatible.... Read review

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