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New Pentium M motherboard! With PCIe!

Do you really need this much computing power for a HTPC? I personally think all you really need is a AthlonXP-M with a Thermaltake Silent Boost for quietness. Most noise comes from the loud (and often proprietary) PSU fan anyways.

The P-M really excel at games because of its 2MB of cache, which would be kinda wasted on a movie box.
 
Looks nice but has its setbacks. 2 PCI is a major limitation, onboard audio looks lacking (although it might have a digital bracket that we don't see) and a pentium M is going to be a lot more powerful than needed. With my 1700+@2.0 nforce2 HTPC setup I can lanczos upscale to pretty much any resolution with some nice filtering effects. Also, the onboard audio looks awesome but might not exactly get the job done - you usually pair a strong processor with a strong video card in a HTPC setup, or you go with a weak processor and weak card. The two compliment eachother. The onboard setup is the exact opposite.
 
I was thinking that this board, with a 6600GT video card, and a Hauppage card would be good. I wonder if it has Azalia, or will require additional a sound card (maybe a separate Soundstorm soundcard if NVidia gets around to competing with Creative Labs). With a passively cooled PSU, and passive cooling for the video card, a fanless HTPC with the horsepower to play the newest games could be created.

Just food for thought.
 
OMG I just noticed this... is that a HDMI connector below the component outputs? If so, that would be the first one I have seen on an individually sold motherboard.
 
Rather than HTPC, think of this mobo in a portable LAN rig with a nice uATX case and a sweet GPU. That's what I'm imagining. 🙂
 
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