There anything in the way of Pentium M motherboards?

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I have some extra DDR, Pentium M 1300, hard drive, etc. and was wanting to put together a carputer. But can't seem to find any Pentium M motherboards.

I know they were Centrino platform but were xATX form factor boards never really made?

 

[Aluvus]

Abit made at least one microATX motherboard that took Socket 479 processors. Asus produced an adapter that allowed (some) Pentium Ms to be used with a handful of Asus Socket 478 motherboards. Supply is probably pretty limited these days, as these were never mainstream products.

 

[Zap]

Besides being overpriced and not mainstream, the other problem is that the whole reason for using a mobile chip was the leaky Prescott CPUs. The current Core CPUs are based on the mobile chips so there's much less interest in using a mobile chip outside of a notebook.

A cheap way to do a carputer is to use a budget setup like this $70 board/CPU.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Yeah Zap that was exactly the rig I'd been looking at. Seems I'll just dump the 1300 since it's cost prohibitive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Zap
A cheap way to do a carputer is to use a budget setup like this $70 board/CPU.

That's really neat, thanks for pointing that out.

Do you happen to know offhand if it supports booting off of a USB memory stick? I found a guide on the internet for modding an XP install CD to allow booting off of a USB memory stick. Would be ideal for a carputer setup.

 

[Zap]

I have no idea regarding the USB memory stick. I don't actually have one of these things. Sorry.

 

[NXIL]

Yes, this board can boot via USB:

http://download.intel.com/supp...gly/sb/d8443001_en.pdf

Page 43, 44, etc.

There is a new version coming out soon with SATA ports, and I think another upgrade or two.

NXIL

 

[piasabird]

Look for a Gigabyte Pentium M. There were Pentium M Motherboards made. Some were made for smaller motherobards similar to Mini-ITX. I think Titan also had a Pentium M Motherobard.

A company called Commell made some Mini-ITX Pentium M Motherboards. It will be hard to find fast high quality Pentium M feature rich motherboards.

A-OPEN and some other companies made Pentium M Bare Bones Systems.