The only more sources of ITX product information are probably all from the industrial market or other special use.
But this kind of market situation with ATX/Micro-ATX, has begun to have many changes in the past two years
More and more users begin to be interested in the small-scale computer, and can be found out a clue too;
more and more Micro-ATX products existed in the current market.
A lot of users hope the volume of computer can be smaller and smaller to avoid waste on a limited space;
in addition, people are aware of environmental protection and saving energy in recent years.
We can see more ITX platforms or boards in market recently, but they are base on low chip group product comparatively.
As like Atom or ION, etc., they are selling in the majority by CPU +MB integrated or whole platform of ITX size.
If the user hopes to have a high expanding or a high-end ITX board,
to match CPU with high capacity and efficiency, it is very difficult to go to look for.
DFI is a brand taking industrial products,
but it often sees the listing competition of high-end products on consuming type board at the same time.
DFI begin to put out first waves of Micro-ATX P45 products,
they broke past Micro-ATX impression with entry level or low-end chip two years ago.
They make Micro-ATX become to support to LGA 775 CPU of the latest specification on the general market,
this new product route of DFI that is broken through for one of market really.
Three major board makers follow up the concept of the small size products to design their own high-end Micro-ATX P45 platform after DFI successively.
Hence more Micro-ATX X58/P55 boards and a lot of brands can be chosen on the market.
DFI begins to develop and launch more into high capacity and efficiency of smaller size too after guiding out the trend of Micro-ATX high-end boards.
IP55 products of MINI-ITX specification, it called DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 and belong to LANPARTY series,
I believe DFI makes it has outstanding OC ability too.
Let’s see the packaging of the products at first; it is using the brief blue color theme.
Accessories enclosed inside:
User’s manual, Creative X-FI software, CPU cover , MB drive disc , IO shield and cables.
Outward of DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36
Board size has 17 X 17cm only
1 X PCI-E X16
P55 has no GPU integrated, user must install VGA additionally.
But beneficial like this, even Intel newest 32 nm Clarkdale CPU was matched H55 for integrating GPU,
opposite; sharing usage on memory controller will decrease the performance efficiency.
2 X DIMM DDR3, supports the 1066/1333/1600 (OC), maximum DDR3 capacity can be supported to 8GB
I5 750 is used to 133/1333 ratio, if change into CPU of i7 860 or higher, can establish to 133/1600 ratio.
3X Black SATAII, supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 (P55 chip is offered)
Debug code LED build, make user easy Debug systematic state
On left of the mother-board
Near to LGA 1156 CPU socket area
MI P55 uses 4 phase PWM design for CPU Vcore, each1 phase standalone power supply VTT and GPU.
Design of Mosfet and IC materials nearly.
Installing Intel Core i5-750 and CORSAIR DDR3 2000 2GBX2
IO
5 X USB 2.0
1 X eSATA/USB 2.0 (Pwer eSATA)
1 X S/PDIF fiber/ coaxial output
1 X RJ-45
1 X Clear CMOS button
MI P55 solder-side, we can see the words of LANPARTY
