Micro-Star International (MSI) yesterday introduced the 915GM Speedster-FA4 motherboard for Intel’s Pentium M CPUs, featuring an Intel 915GM-series chipset, dual-channel DDR2 memory and SATA standard. The motherboard maker also debuted its P1-104A2 1U server based on the 915GM Speedster-FA4 motherboard for server use in the small-to-medium size enterprise and SOHO sectors.
Measuring only 24.5×24.5cm in dimension, the compact 915GM motherboard can be assembled in desktop PCs or mini-PC systems, according to the company. The P1-104A2 1U server, with dimensions of 432×42.5×355mm, has two built-in Gigabit LANs providing 10/100/1000 Mbps of network connectivity over a single lane on the PCIe bus.
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MSI 915GM Speedster-FA4 motherboard | |
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Details |
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CPU |
478-pin Intel Pentium M Dothan (up to 2MB L2 cache)/ Celeron M Dothan (up to 1MB L2 cache) |
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Chipset |
Intel 915GM northbridge, ICH6/ ICH6R southbridge |
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Graphics core |
Intel Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 |
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Main memory |
Two 184-pin 333MHz non-ECC DDR DIMMs or two 240-pin 400/533 MHz non-ECC DDR2 DIMMs (up to 2GB) |
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Slots |
Two 32-bit/33MHz PCI, PCIe x1, PCIe x16 |
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Onboard LAN |
Two Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet controllers |
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Onboard audio |
Realtek ALC880 8-channel codec |
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Onboard IEEE 1394 |
VIA VT6307 IEEE 1394 controller |
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Dimension |
Micro ATX form factor: 24.5×24.5cm |
Source: MSI, compiled by DigiTimes, October 2005
MSI P1-104A2 1U server featuring the 915GM Speedster-FA4 motherboard
Source: Company