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Overview of all Pineview Atom based Motherboardslow cost meets low power consumption and small form factorThe market for low power draw (below 20 Watts), passively cooled, small form factor motherboards was until recently dominated by rather expensive VIA boards and to a smaller extent AMD (with the Geode). Even last years' first generation Atom did not fit into this category as first generation Atom motherboards (with the commonly used power-hungry Intel 945GC chipset or even with the Nvidia ION) typically consumed 20-30 Watts and therefore usually needed a fan on the chipset. The new Pineview Atom combined with the new NM10 Express (formerly Tiger Point) single-chip-chipset on the other hand, makes Atom based motherboards that only draw 12-15 Watts a reality, which means they can be passively cooled and used for purposes where they need to be running 24/7, while minimizing the impact on the electricity bill. Apart from industrial uses, these new Pineview Atom motherboards are ideal in combination with Linux to make small, low power consumption, 24/7 home mail or web servers, BT-clients, file servers, home surveillance appliances, routers, firewalls or even small PCs for web browsing and email. So far, Intel has released four Pineview Atom chips:
Total TDP is the TDP (thermal design power) of the Atom cpu and the NM10 Express Southbridge (the single-chip-chipset of the Intel Pine Trail platform) combined. The Atom N450 and N470 are targeted at netbooks, while the D410 and the D510 are meant to be used on mini-ITX motherboards and nettops. Here is an overview of all Pineview Atom based Motherboards that have been announced or released so far. We aim to keep this list complete and up-to-date, so if you know of any others, please let us know. Please note this overview is limited to standard PC form factor motherboards (ITX, DTX, ATX and their variants), industrial format boards (SBC, COM Express, PC/104, etc.) will not be listed here.  Intel D410PT The Intel D410PT is an very basic entry-level motherboard. It could be used in a very low cost desktop PC for light use, or as a small network server (web / dns / email). Specification: D410 cpu, 1 PCI slot, 2 SATA ports, 10/100 Fast Ethernet port (Realtek RTL8103EL controller), 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 headers, 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), Realtek ALC662 2+2 channel HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor Check price at: Newegg (US)  Intel D510MO In addition to the entry-level features of the D410PT, the Intel D510MO offers a dual-core cpu, a mini-PCIe x1 connector (could be used for a wireless card or for a Broadcom HD video decoder), a GigE network port, and a S/PDIF digital audio header. Sadly it lacks a DVI or HDMI port. Specification: D510 cpu, 1 PCI slot, 1 mini-PCIe x1 connector, 2 SATA ports, 1 Gigabit Ethernet port (Realtek 8111DL controller), 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 headers, 1 parallel port header, 7 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 3 on-board headers), Realtek ALC662 5.1 channel HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor Check price at: Newegg (US)  Asus AT5NM10-I The Asus AT5NM10-I is a very basic entry level board similar to the Intel D510MO and the Foxconn D51S. Compared to the Intel board, it even lacks the mini-PCIe slot, therefore we could see this board competing only on price, providing it's priced below the Intel board. That said, the presence of a LVDS header and it's chunky heat-sink could make it interesting for industrial applications. CeBIT 2010 news: two variants of this board have been spotted at CeBIT, the AT4NM10-I (a single core D410 Atom cpu variant) and the AT5NM10-I IPC geared towards industrial applications with 4 RS232 ports, CF-card slot, on-board DC-DC power converter, but without PCI slot. Specification: D510 cpu, 2 SATA ports, 1 PCI slot, 2 DDR2 667/800 DIMM slots (4 GB max), VGA port and LVDS header, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 (1 port and 1 header), 1 parallel port, 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, IDT73C 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF out and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor Check price at: Newegg (US)  ECS TIGT-I The ECS (Elitegroup) TIGT series of Pineview boards consists of two variants, one with a single core D410 cpu and one with a dual-core D510 cpu. The only slightly remarkable feature is the presence of a PCIe x1 slot which allows the use of a fast SATA/eSATA controller card for additional SATA ports, or the addition of a better graphics card. Specification: D410 (TIGT-I2) or D510 (TIGT-I) cpu, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 2 SATA ports, 10/100 Fast Ethernet (RealTek 8103EL), 8 USB ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, 1 RS232 port, 1 parallel port, Realtek ALC662 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF out and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor  Foxconn D41S The Foxconn D41S is a plain single-core Atom motherboard. It's spec is slightly better than that of the Intel D410PT single-core board, but still nothing to write home about. The D51S is identical to the D41S apart from the dual-core cpu and the cpu fan. Unfortunately Foxconn has opted for a rather small cpu heat-sink which means a fan is required to keep the cpu cool on the dual-core version. Specification: D410 (D41S) or D510 (D51S) cpu, 1 PCI slot, 2 SATA ports, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, 8 USB ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 (1 port and 1 header), 1 IrDA header, 1 TPM header, VGA port, 1 parallel port, 5.1 channel HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF out and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor D41S - Check price at: Newegg (US) D51S - Check price at: Newegg (US)  Gigabyte GA-D510UD The Gigabyte GA-D510UD is an interesting Atom D510 board, due to it's 4 SATA ports (2 from the NM10 chip and another 2 from a Gigabyte SATA2 chip) and a legacy IDE port (could be used for the boot disk or an IDE DOM module), which makes it very suitable to be used for a fileserver. The Gigabyte Ultra Durable 3 Technology, the use of all solid capacitors and the presence of redundant BIOS chips should ensure that this board will provide many years of reliable service. Specification: D510 cpu, 4 SATA ports, 1 IDE connector, 1 PCI slot, 2 DDR2 667/800 DIMM slots (max. 4GB), VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, 1 Gigabit Ethernet port (RTL8111D chip), 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 2 RS232 ports (1 on back-panel, 1 on-board header), 1 parallel port, Realtek ALC888B 7.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, front panel header), mini-ITX form factor Check price at: Amazon (DE)  POV MB-D510-MITX The Point of View MB-D510-MITX is an ordinary Pineview board comparable to the Intel Mount Olive board, apart from the fact that it has a PCIe x1 slot instead of a normal PCI slot. This allows Point of View to optionally bundle a special GeForce G210 PCI-E 1x passive graphics card (512MB, SDDR3) with this board, making it more powerful then any of the Atom 330 + Nvidia ION boards that are so popular as small silent media PCs. Specification: D510 cpu, 2 SATA ports, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 2 DDR2 667/800 DIMM slots, VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, 1 parallel port, 1 RS232 port, 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF header), mini-ITX form factor MB-D510-MITX - Check price at: Amazon (DE) | Informatique (NL) MB-D510-MITX with bundled Nvidia GeForce G210: Amazon (DE) | Brack (CH)  Supermicro X7SPA-HF Supermicro product pages: [ X7SPA-L ] [ X7SPA-H ] [ X7SPA-HF ] The Supermicro X7SPA series uses the ICH9(R) southbridge instead of the usual NM10 Express, which means it features 6 SATA ports (4 on the X7SPA-L). Together with the presence of 2 Intel 82574L Gigabit LAN chips (1 on the X7SPA-L) these boards are very well suited as quiet, low-power, file servers both at home and in SMEs, while the X7SPA-L is also geared towards embedded IPC use. The X7SPA-HF even offers IPMI (v1.5 / 2.0) with KVM support which means it can be completely managed remotely over the network. The X7SPA-HF has an on-board Matrox G200eW GPU while the other two boards use the standard integrated Intel GMA3150. Specification:D510 cpu (D410 on the X7SPA-L), 6 SATA ports (4 on the X7SPA-L), 2 DDR2 667 SO-DIMM slots (4 GB max), 8/10 USB 2.0 ports (2 on back-panel (4 on the X7SPA-L), 5 on-board headers, 1 Type A connector), 1 PCIe x16 (4 lanes) slot, VGA port, LVDS connector (X7SPA-L only), 2 PS/2 ports, 2/4 RS232 ports (1 port and 1 header, 3 headers on the X7SPA-L), 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports (1 on the X7SPA-L), Realtek ALC888 5.1 HD audio (CD-in + front panel header on X7SPA-L only), mini-ITX form factor X7SPA-L - Check price at: onSale (US) X7SPA-H - Check price at: onSale (US) X7SPA-HF - Check price at: onSale (US)  Zotac NM10-DTX WiFi The Zotac NM10-DTX WiFi is the first Pineview Atom board that got us all enthusiastic! Zotac has really taken the Pine Trail platform to it's limits by offering 6 SATA connectors (and to top it off even one eSATA port!) and 2 PCIe slots in addition to one mini-PCIe slot that ships with a Wifi card included. Furthermore it has a HDMI port (sadly limited to 1366x768 by Intel) and the usual GigE network port and HD audio. We predict that this board will be extremely popular among DIY NAS server builders, due to the 6 SATA ports combined with the low power consumption of the Pineview Atom. The uncommon mini-DTX form factor that this board uses, is compatible with standard mini-ITX screw-holes, the only difference is that the board is slightly wider, which means it requires a case that fits at least a micro-ATX board. Specification: D510 cpu, 6 SATA ports, 1 eSATA port, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 10 USB 2.0 ports (6 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 1 PCIe x16 (single lane) slot, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 1 mini-PCIe x1 slot (occupied by a 802.11 b/g/n WiFi module), HDMI (1366x768 max) and VGA ports, 1 PS/2 port, 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in, coax and opt. S/PDIF rear ports), mini-DTX form factor Check price at: Amazon (DE) | Jacob Computer (DE) | Informatique (NL)  Zotac NM10-ITX WiFi The Zotac NM10-ITX WiFi is the mini-ITX variant of the NM10-DTX, it differs by offering only 2 SATA ports and only one PCIe x1 slot, but it has 2 mini-PCIe slots, one used for the included Wifi card while the other one could be used by a Broadcom Crystal HD card. With that card, we think this board could make a very good HTPC for anyone who has a 720p HD-TV or projector (due to Intel limiting the GPU to 1366x768 over HDMI). Specification: D510 cpu, 2 SATA ports, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 8 USB 2.0 ports (6 on back-panel, 2 on-board headers), 1 PCIe x1 slot, 2 mini-PCIe x1 slots (1 occupied by a 802.11 b/g/n WiFi module), HDMI (1366x768 max) and VGA ports, 1 PS/2 port, 1 Gigabit Ethernet port, 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in, coax and opt. S/PDIF rear ports), mini-ITX form factor Check price at: Amazon (DE) | Jacob Computer (DE) | Informatique (NL)  Jetway NC94 series The Jetway NC94 series (available either with a single core or with a dual core Atom) stands out of the crowd thanks to the presence of a PCI-E x16 slot (but with only 4 lanes due to Intel limitations). Unfortunately the remaining specs are very average and it uses a fan to keep cool. Specification: D410/D510 cpu, PCI-E x16 slot (4 lanes), 2 SATA ports, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 10/100 Fast Ethernet port (Intel 82552V), 1 floppy connector, 8 USB ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), VGA port + LVDS header, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 (1 port and 1 header), 1 parallel port, Realtek ALC662 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports and CD-in + front panel header), mini-ITX form factor NC94-510-LF - Check price at: Newegg (US)  Jetway NC96 series The Jetway NC96 series (available either with a single core or with a dual core Atom) is packed with interesting features such as 4 SATA ports in addition to an IDE connector, a mini-PCIe connector and a GigE network port. It could have been perfect as a NAS file server board, if the Jetway engineers hadn't decided to put a DC-DC converter on-board, which makes it very hard to power 4 hard disks off it. Specification: D410/D510 cpu, 1 mini-PCIe x1 connector, 1 PCI slot, 4 SATA ports, 44-pin IDE connector, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 1 Gigabit Ethernet port (RTL8111DL), 10 USB ports (4 on back-panel, 6 on-board headers), VGA port + LVDS header, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 RS232 (1 port and 1 header), Realtek ALC662 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports and CD-in + front panel header), 1 parallel port, 12V DC in, IDE power connector, mini-ITX form factor NC96-410-LF - Check price at: Informatique (NL) NC96-510-LF - Check price at: Newegg (US)  Jetway NF96 series The Jetway NF96 series (available either with a single core or with a dual core Atom) uses the Intel ICH8M Southbridge instead of the standard NM10 Express. It also has a DC-DC converter on-board which means it can be powered by a silent external power brick. Specification: D410/D510 cpu, 1 mini-PCIe x1 connector, 1 PCI slot, 2 SATA ports, 44-pin IDE connector, 2 DDR2 667/800Mhz DIMM slots (4 GB max), 1 Gigabit Ethernet port (RTL8111DL), 9 USB ports (5 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), VGA port + LVDS header, 1 PS/2 port, 2 RS232 (1 port and 1 header), 1 E-SATA port, Realtek ALC662 5.1 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports and CD-in + front panel header), 12V DC in, IDE power connector, Jetway daughter board connector, mini-ITX form factor  DFI LR100-N16M This DFI board is the first board that uses the lower TDP mobile Atom N450 cpu. It is also packed with interesting features such as 3 SATA ports, a CF card socket (ideal for booting off a CF-card), a PCI and a PCIe x1 connector and last but not least dual GigE network ports (perfect for firewall / router use). Specification: N450 cpu, 1 PCI slot, 1 PCIe x1 slot, 3 SATA ports, 2 DDR2 667 MHz SODIMM slots (2 GB max), 10 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 6 on-board headers), 4 RS232 ports (3 on back-panel, 1 on-board header), VGA port + LVDS header, 2 PS/2 ports, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 1 CF socket, HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, S/PDIF in/out and front panel header), mini-ITX form factor  Advantech AIMB-212 The Advantech AIMB-212 seems an interesting board for a small, low power draw router, due to the presence of 2 Intel Gigabit NICs, a mini-PCIe slot (for a wireless card), it's on-board 12V DC converter, a CF slot for the OS and the low power N450 single core mobile Atom cpu. Specification: N450 or D510 cpu, ICH8M chipset, 2 SATA ports, 1 CF card slot, 1 PCI slot, 1 mini-PCIe x1 slot, 1 SoDIMM DDR2 667 slot (2GB max), VGA port and LVDS header, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel82567V and Intel 82583V), 6 RS232 ports (3 on back-panel, 3 on-board headers), 8 USB 2.0 ports (4 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers), 5.1 Realtek ALC888 HD audio (line-in, line-out, mic-in rear ports, 12V DC in, mini-ITX form factor  Asus Hummingbird The Asus Hummingbird is an interesting mini-ITX sized, server class Pineview Atom D510 (dual-core) board with remote management (IPMI) capabilities, 4 SATA ports and dual Intel GigE network interfaces in addition to a 10/100 management NIC. The presence of an on-board USB 2.0 type-A port could allow the use of a USB stick as OS disk. Specs listed below are based on preliminary information. Specification: D510 cpu, 4 SATA ports, 2 SoDIMM DDR2 667 slots (4GB max), 1 PCIe x1 slot, 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports (Intel chips) and 1 10/100 Ethernet port (Realtek chip), VGA port, 2 PS/2 ports, RS232 port, 7 USB 2.0 ports (2 on back-panel, 4 on-board headers, 1 on-board type-A port), 5 fan headers (4 pin), mini-ITX form factor You might also be interested in the following articles:
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