Gigabyte Unveils the C1007UN-D Mini-ITX Motherboard
The mini-ITX motherboard is intended for entry-level desktops.
Gigabyte's C1007UN-D mini-ITX motherboard is based on Intel's NM70 chipset and comes with an Intel Celereon 1007U BGA processor hard-wired to the board with a pre-installed heatsink. The dual-core Celeron 1007U is a 22 nm Ivy Bridge processor that is clocked at 1.50 GHz and has a 2 MB L3 cache and a 17 W TDP.
The motherboard features two DIMMs with support for up to 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, two Gigabit ethernet ports, a SATA 6 GB/s and two SATA 3 GB/s internal ports, one eSATA 3 GB/s port and a legacy PCI slot. Outputs include 6 channel audio, D-Sub (VGA), HDMI, six USB 2.0 ports, an RS232 COM port, LPT and a PS/2 port.
Gigabyte has yet to provide any pricing information, but considering that a Celeron 1007U costs $90, it won't be too spendy.
But the E-450 is serving its purpose just fine.
The $200 Asus P8Z77-I Deluxe is worth the money if you are going to OC. Presently, no other mini-ITX board provides the overclock stability and longevity that a serious OCer would want. The VRM heatsinks and vertical positioning of the daughter-board VRM allows you to use the larger horizontal-blowing coolers instead of being stuck using the downward-blowing coolers (which would otherwise be necessary to keep the VRM cool on other OCed mini-ITX boards). Cheap board + OC = Problems (sooner or later and especially on mini-ITX).
I am just curious because my last Celeron was a 1.2 gig Celeron base off the PIII Core.