In fact, I was looking for just such a thing a couple months ago & VIA is the only competitor. This is great for a home server. No use using 100w on a CPU to run file server duties & maybe a bit of torrent stress. Finally ended up using a 566mhz celeron (20 watts). It would also be just fine running XP for a family member. Don't recall the last time that my mother needed to convert something in photoshop or encode video.

Yeah. What's the market for this thing?

Weird. Too bad the Atom has no provision for SMP -- it looks like you could stick four of them in the bare area of the mobo.

I don't get it. mATX or smaller, for some kind of HTPC or pizzabox desktop or micro tower, I could see it. But this? Other than software development/testing, what's the niche?

HTPC back end, stratum 1 NTP server, security camera DVR, web server, PBX, almost any low end server or "home" server, etc. I have a long list of things to use it for. I would have preferred replacing a few of the PCI slots with PCIe, but it will work well enough. How much and where do I buy one? Space is almost never the concern for me, so I'm not really into the mITX boards. It's more about the power consumption and features. A real serial port is a major bonus. :D

I would love an Atom board with a 16x PCI-E slot for a fanless Radeon or GeForce card to do some H.264/MPEG offloading. You could build a killer low-power low-noise HTPC with that. However, it needs to be a lot smaller than this.

Nex-Gen Atoms will be Dual-Core, and 32nm I believe.

See, this is the kind of CPU that would really benefit from an IGP that can do hardware accelerated HD video. That combination would be more than post people need for everyday computer use.

Haven't you guys heard of those old "XP 2000+" systems that were actually Durons/C3/C5s mis-labeled deliberately? Sold at rip off prices to people who didn't know better. I see this as the latest generation of that garbage.

For example,
http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7524&highlight=duron

edit: unfortunately you need to login to see the photos. I didn't realize this until hours after I posted.

interesting that it has 2 memory slots and a PCI Express x16 slot but after Intel crippled all other Atom boards so they don't canibalize the low end it wouldn't make sence to alow this board to find it's way in PC's so i think Expreview might be right when saying it's designed for industrial applications

wtf, mate? Five PCI slots? I'd love a cheap, tiny Atom box with a PCI-e x16 slot. Sweet WoW box for under $300 using like a 3650 or 8600GT video card. But this is ridiculous.

" Ying Chi's board this ATOM, the use of the traditional allocation of Atom, only one of the N230 1.6GHz Atom CPU with 945 GC chipset. A large plate ATX motherboard design, is to provide up to five PCI interface, in addition to the provision of the accident is still PCIe interface to connect to PCIe cards and other equipment."

Hurray for Engrish translation software.

This has to be the most stupidest idea since the making of AT&T outdoor cable box!

They must think there are a lot of suckers out in this world. There is no way they can compare this with anything worst. Taking the cheapest mobo and CPU and putting them together is going to be more powerful that this board. Sorry, I'm not taken!

No mounting holes, are they gonna glue a heatsink to that?

I can't imagine why the Nano wouldn't be better in such a product. Well, I guess one would choose the Atom simply cuz it is Intel.

Perhaps they're putting them in super-cheap Asian/African markets using spare ATX motherboard components?
(I have no idea if this is even possible given the different trace lengths involved between and Atom and a Core2 processor.)