Associate report that in Japan and Korea it is possible to acquire the new Mini-ITX motherboard gigabyte GA -GC230d, built on base of intel 945GC + ICH7 and equipped with the built-in processor intel atom 230 (1,6 GHz, FSB 533 MHz). The price of this motherboard+CPU is 125 dollars witch is noticeably higher than analogs.


This motherboard relates to the ultra durable series , therefore it use polymeric capacitors and special bios which gives the extended overclocking possibilities. This motherboard supports one memory DDR2-533/400 with up to 2 GB volume, there is one interface PCI for the installation of expansion card, a pair of SATAII ports with RAID support , network controller, 6-channel sound channel 8 (!) ports USB.
The first users, that purchased Gigabyte GA -GC230d, tested the intel atom overclocking potential. Result is not phenomenal , but a stable work at 1,8 GHz frequency is possible .
