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Intel D945GCLF Essential Series Mini-ITX DDR2 667 Intel Graphics Integrated Atom Processor Desktop Board - Retail | 
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| Brand: Intel
Category: CE
List Price: $111.26
Buy New: $62.00
You Save: $49.26 (44%)
New (6) from $62.00
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 11603
Hardware Type: Desktop Computer
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 1.6
CPU Type: Intel Atom
Processors: 1
System Bus Speed: 533
System Memory: 0
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
Warranty: 3 years warranty
MPN: BOXD945GCLF
Model: BOXD945GCLF
UPC: 735858201247
EAN: 0735858201247
ASIN: B0018RWCKA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF is designed to support Internet-centric computing delivering incredible capabilities for the flexible Mini-ITX form factor. Featuring the integrated 45nm Intel Atom Processor and the Intel 945GC Express Chipset, this board is an energy-efficient solution for home users as well as for unique vertical market needs. Designed with Intel's leading edge 45nm Hi-k metal gate processor, this board delivers incredible opportunities to communicate, listen, watch, play, and learn via Internet connectivity.
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Great board: the future of computing September 8, 2008
Brian DeLacey
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Intel D945GCLF motherboard is a great product. This is a super way to start building a computer without the time-consuming complexity of buying many compatible components and assembling them into a working system. So far, I've bought two of these boards and expect to buy more in the future as Intel continues to improve this chip / board product line.
You'll need to add a hard drive, ram memory, a case/power supply, external speakers, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and operating system. But that's all stuff you can pretty easily plug together. You may already have some of these key parts lying around as spares from existing or antiquated computers.
I installed several different versions of operating systems, settling on a copy of Ubuntu for daily use. It's fast, fun, and free.
I have shown this board to a number of very knowledgeable, computer savvy friends who were impressed enough to quickly buy one for their own use. It's cost effective and ruggedly reliable. (I wouldn't recommend a drop-test, but I did drop it off the back of a van and it kept working.)
I've found the processor performance to be quite acceptable for web browsing and basic administrative tasks. The system boots surprisingly quickly. The outstanding energy efficiency is appealing, ideal for any systems that are left on for extended periods of time (e.g. in home servers, security systems, or environmental control devices.)
This product is an exceptional value for a low-cost desktop system. You could also use it as a component in an embedded PC-compatible systems. If nothing else, it's a fun, inexpensive, and powerful way to explore and experiment with new computing technologies.
A small board for a small computer December 28, 2008
Guillermo Ruiz Buenrostro (Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, let me state an obvious thing: this board is not for everyone. It is a small, low-power computer mainboard built, designed and made (although not in that order) to use precisely as that, a small computer.
It measures exactly 17 by 17 centimetres, five centimetres tall. It has an Atom processor running at 1.6 GHz, enough power to run various flavours of Linux and Windows XP, but you don't want to run Vista on it. Why would you want to run Vista at all, I wonder? Well, that's another entirely different question and I won't answer that.
It is a very limited board. It has a single memory slot, up to 2 gigs of DDR2 memory, shared with the video chip, which has just a VGA port, unlike her sister board, D945GCLF2, whom has a s-video port. It also has a single PCI slot, so you can install, let's say, a wireless network internal card or a TV tuner. It has 8 USB ports, so you can plug a lot of stuff. It has a serial and a parallel port, a keyboard and mouse port, both ps/2 style, an ethernet port (1 gbps) and integrated audio ports that sounds good enough. It has two Serial-ATA ports and an EIDE port so you can safely plug a couple hard drives and a couple dvd burners, and no floppy port (who uses floppy drives today anyway?).
Now, let's be clear, this is an underpowered board, no doubt about it. But as today's underpowered machines are yesterday power computers, I'd say this baby was like a workhorse computer in 2003, or a server in 2000. It has enough power to decode most HD formats, at least those I've tested. You cad surf the net, play games that doesn't demand a supercomputer to load the splash screen and do general computing chores and tasks, all that using barely 35 watts, including one laptop hdd and one laptop dvd drive, but not the monitor. Why would you like --or want-- to purchase this baby, then? Two words: limited desktop space. You can get a small MiniITX case and you'll build a computer that uses less space than the yellow pages, allowing you to put it in a corner of your desktop, or, if you are like me, under your desktop, with the help of some screws or duct tape. This way the space you save may be used for something really valuable, like, let's say, your pizza. Hey, sometimes you have to eat...
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