Comments for: MSI offers bare Wind desktop board

#11. Posted at 08:50 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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flip-mode

I guess it is always good to have options, but if it's already an mATX board why settle for anything less than an Athlon X2 with some 780G love?

#11, Because for industrial/POS/embedded applications, that's ser... : UberGerbil (#17) «

#11, Because you can couple it with a small PSU like this... http... : Xenolith (#18) «

#18, actually, most systems I build these days are sub-100W, a... : eitje (#19) «

#8. Posted at 08:12 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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dermutti

Why are atom procs all paired with these crappy 945 chipsets? Does intel just have a ridiculous amount of surplus inventory on these or is there some technical reason why they are doing this?

#8, Poulsbo is late, for reasons Intel hasn't disclosed (but it ... : UberGerbil (#16) «

#2. Posted at 06:44 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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MadManOriginal

945GC and no digital monitor output...pass.

#2, Really, in this day an age why not put on a DVI-I port? That... : Taddeusz (#3) «

#3, Looks like they're primarily targeting point-of-sale and ... : ludi (#14) «

#14, That's a big potential market, but increasingly POS/in... : UberGerbil (#15) «

#5. Posted at 07:19 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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derFunkenstein

if you're going to make a microATX board, why wouldn't you give us all the slots? A PCI-e x16 slot for a Radeon 2400 or whatever would cure the issue with the missing DVI port.

#5, Don't need no stinkin' PCI-e x16 slot ... http://www.newegg.c... : Xenolith (#6) «

#6, You really don't. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis... : Lord.Blue (#7) «

#7, The MSI Wind board doesn't have an AGP slot. Just PCI. : Xenolith (#10) «

#6, Ah, there's the video card my VIA C7 board has been looki... : ludi (#13) «

#5, it looks like they were trying to make a mini-ITX board, but... : eitje (#9) «

#12. Posted at 09:44 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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Hattig

Any information about Intel crippling the 64-bit aspect of the Atom, so all systems can only run with 32-bit OSes?

Can't be bothered with Atom whilst they are using the venerable and power consuming 945 chipset. Intel really need to get their head screwed on, provide a decent desktop chipset for Atom that has decent video decode, and low power usage. C'mon, AMD can do it ...

#4. Posted at 07:14 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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Xenolith

This has been posted before, but for review... http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GCLF-Mini-ITX-Motherboard

I bought one of these... part of a Mame project. Works great. Only problem is that the northbridge uses more juice than the processor.

#1. Posted at 06:42 AM on Jul 8th 2008

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pedro

This seems like an excellent idea.