Atom-powered D945GCLF Mini-ITX motherboard now available

We've heard lots of racket about Intel's hot new Atom chip courtesy of all those subnote manufacturers who plan on using it, but Tranquil PC has noted that the first Mini-ITX motherboard to get powered by said processor is now available for ordering. The Intel D945GCLF comes loaded with a 1.6GHz Atom 230 CPU and support for high-definition audio, 10/100 LAN, PCI, SATA II, GMA 950 graphics and DDR 2 533 / 667 (just to name a few highlights). The board can be ordered up as we speak for £52.90 ($103), and shipments are expected to make their way out during the first week of June.

[Via Tranquil PC's Weblog, thanks David]

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 10:41AM]

*yawn* Wake me when we have dual and quad core atoms. I'm thinking quad core running at 1.6 GHz w/ power save feature that clocks it down to 400/800 MHz when the all that processing power isn't required. Oh, and how about an integrated Nvidia GPU instead of Intel - I like their Linux drivers. HDMI -- I need two of those, please.

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 10:38AM]

For media center use you can't beat Intel Pentium Dual-cores 21XX series.
Mine can run HD video no problem and runs at a constant 18 degrees C with a zalman flower on it.

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 10:56AM]

I was going to buy one of these but, no HDMI im out

[Abuzar Posted May 19th 2008 12:33PM]

Will this be faster than a 2.66Ghz Celeron D?

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 12:46PM]

No way, this thing is slower than a 900mhz celeron-m

[Abuzar Posted May 19th 2008 1:16PM]

Celeron M is based on the Core architecture, but the Celeron D is not.

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 7:55PM]

The 1.6GHz Atom will probably provide 55% of the performance of Celeron D 2.66GHz. (Not counting hyperthreading.)

As far as I can find:
PCMark05 scores
Celeron D 331 (2.66GHz) - 2632
(UMPCPortal ~0.87/MHz) Atom 1.6GHz ~ 1392

Considering the Celerons had an 84W TDP and the Atoms have a 2-4W TDP, half to two-thirds the performance isn't too bad.

[BigD145 Posted May 19th 2008 1:29PM]

That is one of the worst heat sinks ever. It's too damn tall and looks like it was designed by someone that last worked with a 486.

[(Unverified) Posted May 20th 2008 7:39AM]

What's wrong with 486's.

[bhtooefr Posted May 20th 2008 8:28AM]

That's the northbridge heatsink, not the CPU heatsink. ;)

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2008 6:48PM]

I can has LVDS port?