Little Mean Gaming MachineIntel Dothan CPU is quite powerful and doesn’t produce much heat when compared to its Prescott brother. Somebody must have thought: "Hey why don't we bring these CPUs to the desktop?” Well DFI and AOpen have are the first ones to come with motherboards supporting this mobile CPU. I'll be taking a closer look at DFI's 855GME-MGF combined with a Pentium M 725 (1.6ghz).
When you look at the specifications of the 855GME-MGF you will most likely notice the absence of 800FSB, making it look like a motherboard from 2 years ago. How will this system perform? Time to find out!
Main board specifications:Form factor: MicroATX form factor (24,4 cm x 23 cm)
Supported CPUs:
Intel® Pentium® M / Celeron® M processor with a 400 MHz system bus
Processor socket: mPGA479M
Memory slots:
2* DDR 333 slots
Maximum ram capacity:
2GB
Chipset:
Intel® 855GME chipset
Northbridge: Intel® 855GME Graphics Memory Controller Hub (GMCH)
Southbridge: Intel® 6300ESB I/O Controller Hub
Graphics:
Intel integrated graphics up to 64 MB memory
Supports 4x/2x AGP 2.0
Storage:
2* IDE UDMA 100 ports
2* SATA 1.0 ports (Supporting RAID 0 and RAID 1)
Audio:
Realtek ALC655 6-channel audio
USB & Firewire:
4* USB 2.0/1.1 ports (back)
1* IEEE1394/Firewire port at the back and an extra connector on the motherboard
Package Contents:
The motherboard
One back plate
Heatsink and fan for CPU!
Manual + driver CD
1* IDE cable and 1* Floppy cable
2* SATA cables + 1* molex to SATA power connector cable
A extra set of jumpers
Manual, driver CD and a disk with Intel RAID Drivers