New Ibase 3.5 inch Atom based board

_dopehead_ · 04-30-2008, 07:16 AM

Anyone seen this : http://www.ibase.com.tw/ib882.htm as far as i can tell the Atom and its chipset can handle x.264 no problem, maybe this could be a good board for low-power, low-noise, low-heat htpc and for carpc 2.7Watts does not require much of a PSU, and it's only 12V :-)

bl3nd3r · 04-30-2008, 08:10 AM

I wonder how much this board is going for. If it is reasonable then it might work great, however, many embedded systems like this can be quite pricey.

_dopehead_ · 04-30-2008, 09:30 AM

I know :-) i have just gotten the LS-372 from commel, same size for core 2 duo which is about 200£ for the motherboard alone

Woofnstuff · 04-30-2008, 05:01 PM

just found this one here as well
http://www.mini-itx.com/2008/03/06/i...based-mini-itx

and also this
http://www.mini-itx.com/2008/03/06/i...ini-itx-boards

widefault · 05-04-2008, 12:30 AM

Portwell also has an Atom board in the 3.5" form factor.
http://www.portwell.com/products/det...CHAR1=PEB-2736

I don't much like either board right now. iBase went with a PCI-104 connector instead of mini-PCI or mini-PCIe, and Portwell went with SDIO which is even less useful to me. At least I can find a PCI104 mini-PCI board.

Still hoping there'll be a good Atom board. Been playing with Geode GX1 and Via C3 3.5" boards over the last few days. The Geode@300Mhz pulls 6 watts of power and the Via@667MHz is about 15 watts. The Atom would be about half the Geode with 4-5x better performance. Just plain wow.