Asus NIVL-VM DH Core Dual CPU Board

[Naldo Paul]

Asus has been more conservative equated to most CPU board makers when it arrives to utilizing Intel's mobile processors in a desktop environment. In late 2004, when the fresh Pentium-M desktop CPU boards began hitting the market, Asus assumed a back seat and did not insert out a product for this speedy elaborating market, whereas littler CPU board manufacturers ate up this little quantity of niche market sales. It is unlikely that this was referable to any technical conclude, as Asus has lot of experience with the Pentium-M processor, as they create dozens upon dozens of Pentium-M based notebooks. Instead, the timing was not correct for them and the demand was not there.


Asus eventually caved into peer force (Everyone's doing it!) and freed their 1st Pentium-M desktop product almost 6 months after, although not in the element of a complete-fledged CPU board. Their first Pentium-M desktop product was the CT-479, which was an adapter card which permitted Pentium-M processors to be utilized in Socket-478 desktop CPU boards.




While rather an ingenious product, the timing of its free was inauspicious, as Intel platforms were in the center of a migration towards Socket-775 central processing unit form elements and PCI Express graphics cards. Socket-478 sales had complete but blocked at the time, and such, Socket-478 to Socket-479 adapters were not famous either, contempt the stellar function of these cards in equivalence to fresh Pentium Four solutions.


With the free of Intel's Core Duo, Asus is acting it correct this time. They are one of the first with a complete-fledged Core Duo desktop CPU board out on the market in the shape of the NIVL-VM DH. This platform is targeted exactly at desktop users and gamers who need an ultra-less noise, less-power system, in addition to the speedy elaborating home theater Computer market. As an included bonus, the NIVL-VM is the least csotly Core Duo desktop platform to hit the market yet, At last cracking the barrier. Pentium-M/Core Duo desktop CPU boards have been notoriously costly equated to Athlon64/Pentium IV based platforms, so hitting these less price points surely may assist spur adoption of Core Duo on the desktop.