Gigabyte Intros GA-D425TUD Mini-ITX Motherboard

[btarunr]

Gigabyte is designing a new mini-ITX motherboard that's modeled almost entirely around the GA-D525TUD, albeit with the single-core Intel Atom D425 "Pineview-D" processor, called the GA-D425TUD. The Atom D425 is a single-core chip with two logical CPUs enabled by HyperThreading technology, which has an integrated memory controller and graphics controller. It is paired with the Intel NM410 chipset.

The processor is cooled by an active fan-heatsink, while the tiny chipset makes do with a heatsink to match its size. The processor is wired to two memory slots for single-channel DDR3 memory. While the NM410 gives out two SATA 3 Gb/s ports, an additional Gigabyte GSATA2 PCI-Express controller gives out two more SATA 3 Gb/s ports with RAID support, and an IDE connector supporting two IDE devices. The lone expansion slot is a PCI. Connectivity includes 6-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, COM/LPT ports, D-Sub for display, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. The board makes use of high-quality components with Ultra Durable 3 construction. Expect it to cost a lesser than GA-D525TUD which goes for 79 EUR.



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[AndreiD]

Actually, the price seems quite okay.

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Why there is a market for single core Atom ITX I really dont know. For 2W more, and the possibility of double the performance, you get the dual core. Chipset and I/O are STILL the higher power consumers. Intel is only half-heartedly solving this.

An active fan Atom... yuk. Integrating the GPU on chip hasnt helped performance, power utilisation or heat. Only makes them cheaper to make... but end user prices are still the same

 

[HillBeast]

The thing looks pretty nice, and UD on an Atom can't be a bad thing, but this is more a criticism of Mini ITX boards in general, why do they use those little whiny fans? Why don't they throw a little laptop blower fan on it? Those things work way better in smaller spaces and are nowhere near as loud.