The allure of motherboards is nerddom's darkside. Practically speaking, there's not much to do with one except build a crufty PC. But to a geek, that itself if creation's own canvas: the smaller, the better. Gigabyte's Churchill miniDTX motherboard represents a new standard, tied into AMD's "Live! Home Media Server" plans, and while it's no PicoITX, it can accomodate a much beefier CPU.
AM2 Atlon 64 and Sempron chips, in fact, fit the socket, and the board is rounded out with a single PCIe (x1 only) slot, a standard PCI slot, six SATA headers, eight USB headers, and some godawful onboard video. It is equipped with Gigayte's SiS761GX north- and SiS966 south-bridge chipsets.
This comes a day after Intel announced it was putting out its own Mini-ITX board, the "Little Valley D201GLY, which includes everything, including a 1.33 GHz soldered-in Celeron, on-board.
Gigabyte Announces First DTX Motherboard and Intel Takes on Mini ITX[Dailytech]
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