The atom board
D945GCLF Board
Well early august I ordered an D945GCLF board from Intel. This mainboard isn’t a super performer but it is the first intel mainboard to use a super low voltage CPU called the atom. The only downside of this board is that it uses an older chipset that draws a lot more power… It kind of ruins the fact that the cpu is designed to use as little as possible. The intel gma950 graphics isn’t that spectacular either. It rules out High definition picture.
Nevertheless this is a nice board to have around to mess with. At a price tag of € 60 this is a bargain. The 2GB of memory only cost me an extra € 20. I used spare parts to put together the system. It’s currently running windows XP MCE, but I might try many different OS’ s on it.
The CPU also supports 64bit so that’s a very nice extra.
Stop! Render time! — iGwen said,
November 27, 2008 @ 2:53 pm
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