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