With so little room to work with, fitting all the standard portsĪs this isn’t an imbedded Atom product, plenty of room is left around the CPU Mini-ITX motherboard layout is tough to criticize. What it doesn’t lack is paper - Intel loves to provide The DG45FC doesn’t come with many accessories - just a couple of SATAĬables and an I/O shield.
One PCI Express* x1 bus add-in card connectors * Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal)
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* 5 Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 1 eSATA back port with RAID 0, * Up to 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 back ports and 4 via headers) Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82567LF With integrated HDMI + DVI-I display ports Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD onboard graphics subsystem One optical S/PDIF digital audio output using the IDT 92HD73E audio codec Intel® High Definition Audio in the following configuration: * 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and * Support for up to 4 GB of system memory * Two 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets * Support for an Celeron® processor 400 sequence in an LGA775 socket * Support for an Intel® Celeron® dual-core processor in an LGA775 * Support for an Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor in an LGA775 * Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket Inches )Īt product launch, this desktop board supports: The back of the box illustrates most of its features. We have been anticipating the DG45FC toĮxcept for the model number there is little to differentiate the box from The AMD 690G based Albatron KI690-AM2 was quite full-featured but it never saw much distribution and now the chipset is history. To bring more computing power to the mini-ITX platform, but it did whet ourĪppetite for a better implementation. The closest socket 775 competitor we’ve had experience with, the recently reviewed Intel has gone all out, abandoning the analog VGA output altogether, arming theīoard with DVI and HDMI, along with S/PDIF, gigabit ethernetĪnd eSATA. Outputs on their onboard video boards, but the DG45FC has rectified We’ve criticized Intel in the past for the lack of digital While it’s not the first LGA775 mini-ITX mainboard, it is certainly one of the the mostįunctional, judging by specs. As with most new IGPs, Intel claims X4500 has better 3D performanceĪnd decoding for high definition video formats. It isīased on the new G45 Express chipset featuring X4500 graphics, so it shouldĪlso provide a much better multimedia experience than Intel’s previous mini-ITX Processor suits them best - it supports all Celeron, Pentium dual-core,Īnd Core 2 Duo processors only quad core processors are excluded. Processor, the DG45FC has an LGA775 socket, letting users decide what The Intel DG45FC is a more versatile mini-ITX board.
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While both products are impressive for the industrial and commercial embedded markets, due to the lack of CPUĪnd GPU power, they offer only basic functionality which most DIY enthusiasts This year, they took it a step furtherīy using the low-power Atom processor in the D945GCLF. The first truly affordable mini-ITX solution, which sold in retail channels for $70, an un-heard of low price for m-ITX. Intel is pushing deeper into the mini-ITX market, threatening to transform a onceĮxpensive niche into a mainstream budget platform. HDMI and DVI video outputs, along with 4 SATA, eSATA, gigabit ethernet, S/PDIF and the G45 Express chipset featuring X4500 graphics make this new Intel C2D LGA775 mini-ITX board quite a loaded package at a pretty reasonable price.