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AOpen ATX Pentium M motherboard -- i915Ga-HFS
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:37 am
by Fogey
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:09 pm
by infinitevalence
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:57 pm
by Apoptosis
If this motherboard can perform well and not priced too high it should be pretty sweet!
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:18 pm
by infinitevalence
Yeah could be a really great HTPC base too
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:51 pm
by Evilsizer
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?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:42 am
by infinitevalence
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:18 am
by Evilsizer
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).
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:07 pm
by Fogey
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
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:49 pm
by Apoptosis
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!
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:14 am
by -mogwai
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:47 pm
by Apoptosis
I broke down and have one coming... Just have to see what it is like compared to the DFI 855GME motherboard.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:40 pm
by Fogey
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:10 am
by -mogwai
haha tell me about it
Pentium M getting more press for desktops
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:35 am
by Fogey
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:57 pm
by Fogey
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
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 12:25 pm
by Zinn2b
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
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 1:34 pm
by Apoptosis
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
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:57 pm
by kenc51
link the looks of that
what i need is 1 which supports agp8 and dual channell ddr400
come on Aopen !!
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:01 pm
by -mogwai
the dfi 855gme-mgf does
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:07 pm
by Apoptosis
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!