KONTRON 986LCD-M/mITX (for Core Duo/Core Single) [without CF-slot, but with PCI-E]

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Intel Core Duo & Single
Ideal for M2-ATX

- Intel® Core™ Duo and Core™ Solo Processors (mPGA478 socket, mBGA479 prepared)
- Support Yonah and Merom CPU core
- Front Side Bus 533/667 MHz
- Intel® 945GM + Intel® ICH7R Chipset
- Intel® GMA950 graphic controller on board
- Flat Panel Display Support
- Dual independent Display Support (incl. 2x LCD)
- 1x 16x PCI-Express /SDVO external graphic card socket
- 3GB DDR2 memory support
- 3x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
- 8x USB 2.0, 4x RS232C, 2x IEEE1394
- 1x ATA100 and 4x SATA150/300 IDE Controller
- 1x mini PCI-Express socket for easy expansion of i.e. wireless LAN
- On board RAID 0/1/5/10 support with SATA har [more]

CPU	Intel Core Duo @ 533/667 FSB
Graphics	Intel GMA 950
Formfactor	ITX (17x17cm)
RAM	2x DDR-II 533/667
Audio	AC97 Codec
Base	Intel ITX

USB	8x USB 2.0
Firewire	2x
IDE/SATA	1x IDE, 4x SATA
LAN	3x 10/100/1000 Mbit
Parallel	--
Serial	2x

yes	TV-Out
yes	PCI
yes	Mini-PCI
yes	IDE
no	DVI
yes	800x480 Resolution

no	Passive-Cooling
yes	PCI-Express
no	PCMCIA
yes	SATA
yes	CPU changeable
yes	Compact Flash

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Customer ratings: Average rating, based on 4 ratings

from b.pereira am 11.05.2008 | See all my comments

Perfect for a T2500 cpu. with a CF and miniPCI. This is a board with all the features of a normal size one. Price a litle bit higher but you will by the best board on the market

from myrus am 30.01.2008 | See all my comments

very good board for Yonah and Merom CPU Core Duo

from kenhage am 29.12.2007 |

Nice board with lots of features normally only found in bigger "normal" size boards. I especially like the 3 gigabit network ports, capable of handling Jumbo frames. The CF and the mini PCI-Express slots on backside are also useful. I use the 16 GB CF card to hold the system partition for my linux OS. Also great with the 4 SATA connectors normally not found on other Mini-ITX-boards. These I use to set up an external RAID 5 array for storage of my videos, music and photos.

from L33T_TEK am 31.10.2007 |

A really good feature rich board. I have used this in a mediacenter, where it performed very good. The bundled cooler performs well (but kinda noisy) although it wouldnt be a shame if it had been copper instead of aluminum, especially if youre going to use this in a tight configuration, and still need silent operation.

One of the problems I encountered with the board was getting the SPDIF in/out header that was on the motherboard in use. The header is not standard 1mm spacig DIL, it was 0.8mm or something like that. I cut up a IDE cable for 2.5" hdd's and soldered CINCH plugs on the cables, and voila, working COAX SPDIF input and output.

All in all very recommendable board.

Pros:
Fast
Extremely feature rich including:
Dual Bios (you can tweak almost every bit of the bios)
PCIe x16 and regular PCI
Tons of connectors (RS232, USB etc)
3 x 1Gbit Ethernet (yessir)

Cons:
Rather noisy bundled cooler (adjust speed in bios, and all is good, but this means higher temp)

SPDIF header has to be built yourself, or bought from Kontron for the price of a small country.

Since its so crammed with components and stuff, cabeling in a small case can be hard (but not impossible, so maybe only ½ a con ;)