Where’s the North Bridge ?
The latest Intel mini-itx main board – the ‘D510M0’
Equipped with the very latest Intel Atom Dual Core D510 processor (2x 1.66GHz) and the Intel NM10 Express Chipset.
The key to the success of this platform will no doubt be improvements in overall performance, not just due to the 2x hyper threaded 1.66GHz CPUs – but due to the fact that the north bridge controller is on the SAME silicon as the CPUs !
Tranquil PC, an early tester of the D510M0 boards will be using this new board in numerous new PCs and Servers, including the new MiDASS series of Home Servers. There is talk, that the board will also be made available on it’s own too.
Watch this space for further news on the great little main board !
We will be comparing various performance criteria against the popular D945GCLF2, etc as well as bringing news of product launches.
