AOpen ATX Pentium M motherboard -- i915Ga-HFS

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:37 am

It's a start in the right direction to move the Pentium M to the desktop market. Some of the reviews as of late, the Pentium M does well agaisnt AMD and Intels top CPU chips for desktops, when it comes to gaming.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:09 pm

no kidding i was looking at this mobo it looks like its got some nice stuff and could be a real overclocker if the bios options are there.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:57 pm

If this motherboard can perform well and not priced too high it should be pretty sweet!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:18 pm

Yeah could be a really great HTPC base too

Evilsizer · Post by **Evilsizer** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:51 pm

you mean this board here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813137061
for $300 I will wait and stick with the p4pse and 730 i got.

*edit*
i lost the link but shuttle has a sli PM box coming out at the end the year. comes with dual 6800gt's sff type 400watt psu. est. $3k, they are showing it off at ?comdex?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:42 am

man i hope thats just newegg charging a premium because if its really 300 its not worth it in any shape or form, its just a standard motherboard with a different socket, with the 855 chipset i could kinda understand it as intel was charging alot for it but this is just a 915 chipset nothing specile.

Evilsizer · Post by **Evilsizer** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:18 am

well the one at the egg is using a moblie 915 and Matx the one he is talking about is full atx and a non-mobile chipset. I just saw the one he posted about. If its still that price hell no. Do a search on pricewatch or pricegrabber for the one i listed i bet newegg is the cheapest for that board(LOL).

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:07 pm

The one I was making reference to was for a full size MB for ATX. AOpen has two other MB's for the micro ATX . The boards for now are way to much money, but I'm hopeful this will open up a new niche market for the Pentium M for the socket 479. Another arena to play in. If the prices come down, I want to build one for a winter project come Nov/Dec. Just got done with a AMD FX-55 system. Alas, it's almost Summer time and I need to enjoy the warmth of the late Spring sun while it lasts. Ahhhh, the alure of computing, always searching, looking for that something different and special. Thanks
http://club.aopen.com.tw/news/News_Show ... ge=English

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:49 pm

A few stores now have the AOpen i915GMm-HFS board listed for sale. Check out the prices RIGHT HERE...

Pricing is DOWN to $285 for the motherboard now. Newegg raised their prices up to $320!

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:14 am

even if it were cheaper, i dont think i'd buy it. i'd rather have a full atx. i'd be too afraid of breaking something on the micro board if i had to pull out a power cable from a drive or my gpu or something

besides, i like having room between pci slots.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:47 pm

I broke down and have one coming... Just have to see what it is like compared to the DFI 855GME motherboard.

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:40 pm

Let us know how well it works. I'm still waiting on the full size ATX one from them. Not sure when they will release it. They hype it up, then all goes quite.
I don't know if I'll be able to wait till Nov/Dec time frame to build one.

audiophile: I get the impression Zap and Ralphunter missed your point about
AOpens new Full size ATX MB for the Pentium M.

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:10 am

haha tell me about it

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:35 am

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050621/index.html

The Pentium M is starting to get more notice.

Fogey · Post by **Fogey** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:57 pm

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 80_15.html

X bit labs playing with a Pentium M. This is starting to look better every day. I'm still hopefull other MB mfg's. will start to take note.

Couldn't help but notice the Pentium M in this case was a yet to be released M780 @ 2.26. Hmmm, I wonder

Zinn2b · Post by **Zinn2b** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:25 pm

Apoptosis wrote:I broke down and have one coming... Just have to see what it is like compared to the DFI 855GME motherboard.

That comes as a surprize to no one. lol Go get them bud

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:34 pm

It arrived! I put the AOpen HSF next to a retail boxed Intel LGA 775 HSF for a size reference... The HSF is smaller than my DFI 855GME boards HSF and as you can tell you can't mount another heatsink to it with out some heavy mods. I'm going to LA for meetings starting on the 25th to 29th, so I won't be able to power it up for a week

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:57 pm

link the looks of that

what i need is 1 which supports agp8 and dual channell ddr400

come on Aopen !!

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:01 pm

the dfi 855gme-mgf does

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:07 pm

The DFI 855GME offers single channel DDR1 memory (yes, it has two slots, but is single channel) and the AGP slot is 4x and not AGP 8x. Remember it is running on the notebook 855GM chipset!

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