DFI's green mobo glows in Pentium M dark

THE FLOODGATES ARE OPENING. DFI has just announced a new motherboard, the boring sounding 855GME-MGF 'green motherboard'. It is not one of the spiffy LAN Party glow in the dark, brightly colored wonders, but a simple average looking mobo. In fact, the specs, AGP 4x, single channel DDR333, and no special features sounds quite dull.

The thing that made me sit up in my chair was the fact that it is a desktop Pentium M motherboard. Grin. Grin again. Me want. This socket 479 board is just the thing that enthusiasts have been drooling over for years. Ask, and ye shan't receive. Bitch, and still nothing. Pentium 4 runs out of steam, and hey, look what we can suddenly let the mobo makers do. Low power, quiet, and all the other inherent goodness PMs bring.

This is DFI, and they do overclocking really really well, and the 855GME-MGF is no exception. Adjustable FSB from 100-250MHz, clock multipliers, FSB:Memory multipliers, asynch PCI and AGP, and just about anything else you want to tweak is here. In fact, they have a chart in the press release showing a PM overclocked to 2.8GHz destroying an A64 and a P4EE in Doom3. Granted, it is in 640*480, but still, there is potential here, big potential.

The board ships to distributors on the 8th, so it should be available in 2-3 weeks. All I can say is an enthusiast aimed Pentium M board. About #&$*^#% time! Go DFI. µ