MSI IM-945GSE (MS-9830) Mini-ITX motherboard
Posted by admin | Under mini motherboard Thursday Oct 9, 2008Last month, MSI officially introduced the IM-945GSE Mini-ITX motherboard, previously known as the MS-9830.
MSI has carefully designed this fanless industrial motherboard, offering DVI output – not yet available on other atom-based Mini-ITX motherboards.
It is the use of the Atom N270 processor combined with the 945GSE chipset and ICH7M southbridge which allow this motherboard to run fanless, with a max TDP of 11.8W* (significantly lower to the max TDP of 29.5W** for the Atom N230 combined with the 945GC chipset and ICH7 southbridge) .
Other features for this board are one SO-DIMM (up to 2GB RAM), 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports, one PCI slot and one Mini-PCIe slot, 2 serial ports (headers for up to 4 additional ports) 4 USB 2.0 ports (headers for up to 2 additional ports), one IDE port, 2 SATA ports.
Read the full press release here, and specifications there.
Read the full review from mini-itx.com here covering the test of the MSI MS-9830 motherboard.
*: from Mobile Intel 945GSE Chipset page.
**: from Intel 945GC Chipset page.
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