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Albatron has ITX boards aplenty

CeBIT 2008 AMD, Intel and VIA
Thu Mar 06 2008, 12:48

ALBATRON HAD THE best board of CeBIT 2007, what do you follow it up with? More of them of course, many more.

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Albatron PI35

Last year it was all about AMD CPUs, and there are more of those boards to show off. The one above is the PI965, an Intel based mini-ITX board. It is notable for having a full 16x PCIe slot on board, the first ITX form factor I have seen with this capability.

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Albatron KI700M

Lest we not forget who came up with this form factor, Albatron has a Via ITX boards as well. This KI700M has a soldered down C7 and is completely passively cooled. No moving parts is a good thing in this market, a very good thing.

There were a bunch of boards in various uses, from a slot machine to a back of the monitor PC. Albatron sees a lot of uses for small x86 machines, and is not shy about delivering boards. Intel, AMD and Via are all represented, pick the platform you want. µ

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Mini-ITX PCIe has been available for years...

Commell's LV-677 has 16x PCI express and has been around for over two years now. Nice boards, too...

http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=104

posted by : Harry, 06 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Does ANYONE make an ECC RAM capable ITX mobo?

As much as I'd like some of the little things, for various single-purpose machines, leaving one running for a few years without ECC RAM is roughly equivalent to adding a virus at some random later-time.

Does *anyone* make an ECC capable mini-ITX board.

Via seemed to be fundamentally opposed to it ( e-mail a couple of years ago ), the ITX shop, or whatever it's called, doesn't list ECC for anything. . .

Just wondering if anyone out there had scored a /trustworthy/ mini-board. . .

Thanks in advance, eh?

posted by : Antryg, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
no availability in blighty

I have wanted to buy albatron KI690-S1 since last year as Albatron displayed it in a show. I delayed buying Aopen I975xa-ydg motherboard thinking turions are 64 bit , cheaper and better value. While turions are plenty and easily available not even one single KI690-S1 is available anywhere in uk or usa. What good is showcasing items and raising curiosity when they have no intention of commercially producing them.

posted by : sam, 07 March 2008 Complain about this comment
More PCI-E

iBase has also had a G965 based mini-ITX board with PCI-E x16 for a while now: http://www.ibasetechnology.net/mi900.html

At first glance based on the product name I'd hoped the Albatron one was based on the P35, but apparently not.

posted by : Gldm, 10 March 2008 Complain about this comment
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