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Albatron showed at CeBIT 06 its KI51PV mini-ITX motherboard, supporting Socket 754 CPUs and featuring nVIDIA's nForce4 C51PV with integrated GeForce 6150. It has one DDR400 slot supporting up to 1GB of memory, one PCI slot, Realtek 5.1 on board sound, one Gigabit Ethernet port and one 10/100 Ethernet port and 4 SATA RAID ports.



EDIT: Perhaps this is more appropriate in the "CPUs & Motherboards" forum? If so, would then a moderator please move it? Thanks.

Seems like Aris' dream come true, except that there's no PCI-Express slot

Wow, that's pretty nifty, and good news for people looking for alternatives to VIA boards. Probably even harder to buy outside of a barebones system though.

I am thinking HTPC with 1 Laptop HDD and a Seasonic PSU.

With a little bit of nifty ducting from the PSU fan to the CPU heatsink, that would be a really easy 1 fan system, however it would need someone to build their own case.

Performance wise it would beat the crap out of any VIA system, and would never get hot so long as it only gets used as a HTPC, and it will be quite cheap.

Any volunteers to build a custom case around the concept of that motherboard, or any further ideas.


Andy

NICE little thing. I'd toyed with the idea of sticking 2 systems in a single case,with KVM,shared USB,and this could fit the box even with a full size mobo.

It also can be a sweet quiet setup, a Sempy 3000 with an Aerocool 1000 cooler-minus fan. It's a bit more compact than a Ninja. I'd figure a PSU with a 120 or 140 mm fan could cool everything. I'd see if the Heatpipes were fairly close to equal efficiency with a horizontal board,but a cube layout with the PSU on the opposite side of a central partition could be interesting. I'd scavenge some junk case frames I have for mounts and whatever,but the main case would be wood,maybe a nice red oak veneer?

Being into audio,my M-Audio soundcard would us the pci slot. I'd go with a pair of Spinpoints,SATA.suspended aluminum housings. With a single big low RPM fan,and bottom air inlet,a front wood door,she'd be near silent.

ronrem wrote:NICE little thing. I'd toyed with the idea of sticking 2 systems in a single case....

Heheh, nice idea. I don't know how you'd power them (multiply the MB connector somehow?), but you could also probably fit 4 of these things into a single case and have your own little "parallel computing" thing happening.

A tidbit of info:
http://www.mini-itx.com/2006/03/09/alba ... -itx-board

With pictures.

i hope it will be released soon, and more importantly at a somewhat reasonable price

anything below $300 would be nice

Wow, that's a tiny northbridge heatsink.

it is suposed to support turion.... thats a good thing I´m looking to buy one here in europe but it.s almost impossible to find

BrianE wrote:Heheh, nice idea. I don't know how you'd power them (multiply the MB connector somehow?)

A picoPSU should be able to drive such a system, it'd probably fit in pretty much any case.

The latest I heard was that June is the month we'll start to see some product. As for powering this puppy, the picoPSU could probably handle it but you'd need to hack together a special connector as the motherboard has a 24 pin connector and P4 connector, both of which are not standard on the picoPSU.

pipperoni wrote:but you'd need to hack together a special connector as the motherboard has a 24 pin connector and P4 connector, both of which are not standard on the picoPSU.

"20-pin by default, but most 24-pin motherboards work fine without the extra four pins. An adapter is included for "true" 24-pin systems."

To make up for the lack of cables sets, a number of adapters are included so that different kinds of devices can be connected. Most important of these is an adapter for the +12V AUX plug found on nearly all mainstream motherboards. A 20-pin to 24-pin adapter is also included, although most 24-pin boards will function just fine without the extra four pins connected.

Just a correction

lol!

My mistake! I just looked at the pictures on Logicsupply and assumed what you saw is what you got.

Any more word on when this is available? I want one really really bad. I've been waiting on this one since i got my first super slow via mini-itx.

autoboy wrote:Any more word on when this is available? I want one really really bad. I've been waiting on this one since i got my first super slow via mini-itx.

It's on their site.
http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/m ... pro_id=215

Maybe you should contact them?
http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/serv ... act_us.asp

Great idea. If it came from a first tier mobo maker, I'd buy it. However, I thought Albatron was a second-tier maker, at best.

I checked the customer reviews of Albatron's AMD/Nvidia mobos on Newegg and they weren't really too complementary. YMMV, but it concerns me.

Cool-n-quiet not in specs. Manual not yet available on vendor's site.

News at Computex:

Albatron says that a Socket-AM2 version is in the works and should be out by the end of this year. Coupled with an Energy Efficient Small Form Factor Athlon 64 or X2 processor, the Socket-AM2 version of this motherboard should be a very attractive option for a HTPC among other things. Kudos to Albatron on doing something different.

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/sho ... =2770&p=18

j4cbo wrote:Wow, that's a tiny northbridge heatsink.

The pictures on Anandtech (see above) show a better heatsink:

A review from TechReport
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q4/al ... dex.x?pg=1

I've been watching out for this board for a while now -- still unavailable in the UK AFAIK. One thing worries me about the NB heatsink -- it's going to seriously limit the choice of CPU heatsinks which would fit.