Thread: Intel: 2 motherboards for WHS

If the Intel Atom has already conquered the market of netbooks and nettops, the processor "low-cost and low consumption of foundry is preparing to invade the platforms Windows Home Server. The founder effect has recently introduced two models of motherboards dedicated to this market.

Mini-ITX or smaller

Dubbed Bandon and Mini-ITX, the first of these cards shipped Pineview Atom processors, this last point for integrating a memory controller and graphics controller. There is also an ICH9R Southbridge, two DDR2 slots, four SATA ports, a PCI-Express 1x four USB ports and a Gigabit Ethernet connector.

The second, developed in collaboration with Gigabyte, meets the sweet name of Little Butte. Extremely compact (5 x 8 inches), this map embeds a Pineview Atom processor, a DDR2-800 connector, four SATA ports, two eSATA connectors, 4 USB ports and a Gigabit Ethernet connector. This motherboard also has a switch to allow, if necessary, launch a WinPE to restore the server. Therefore remains to get the price and availability date of these two motherboards...