Aopen Pentium M Micro-ATX motherboard Appears in Japan

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited October 2004 in Hardware
AOpen has launched an interesting Pentium-M micro-ATX mainboard in Japan, with 2 x GB Ethernet, Serial ATA, Firewire.

A 2GHz Pentium-M has the same integer benchmark ratings as a 3.4GHz P4, but much lower power consumption.

Source: Akiba PC Hotline.

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    Looks like it has some overclocking options in the 1 screenshot they posted of a bios screen. Too bad it's still based on the i855 chipset, which is a single channel solution though, but the P-M might be more like an AMD proc that doesn't need the extra bandwidth like a P4 too. One of these motherboards combined with a 1000 or 1100 (P-M 723 or 733) Dothan running on a 200 fsb speed sounds extremely interesting to me. I think a combination such as that at 2200 MHz would surprise a lot of people on how well it kicks a P4's ass.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    This thing could prolly OC like a little bitch too, at least heat-wise.

    Thats the craziest socket design I have seen lately. Never seen one a CPU socket sideways in the normal HS retention bracket.
  • ThraxThrax
    arches an eyebrow with great interest
     🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    arches an eyebrow with great interest
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Interesting board. And that northbridge heatsink is too cute.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2004
    Yeah another different design with the Norhtbridge heatsink.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Seems like a winner!
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2004
    there is only 1 *that i know of* socket T p4 with a diagonal socket compared to the HS/F adapter, intriging, i like the chipset cooler, i like all chipset coolers that arent active cooling :)

    i didnt know you could buy a p4-m chip, i guess i havent really looked for them that much :D
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited October 2004
    That board is for a Pentium M chip, not a Pentium 4 mobile chip, Armo. Pentium M (Banias and Dothan versions) are a totally different architecture than P4 and much more like an AXP or A64 (without the 64 bit extentions). It's the way Intel should have gone instead of netburst IMO.
  • rykoryko new york
    edited October 2004
    I want one.....how much is 29,800 yen?

    I agree that it's 855 chipset somewhat sucks---would be nice if aopen had cross-bred an 875p chipset with that little socket to see what a dothan can really do....
    mmonnin wrote:
    ...Thats the craziest socket design I have seen lately. Never seen one a CPU socket sideways in the normal HS retention bracket.

    fyi, abit ai7 has a sideways socket in a square hsf retetion bracket... see pic
    ai7.JPG 52.3K
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