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Despite the well publicized popularity of the Pentium M on the desktop platform, there are surprisingly few consumer desktop boards with the unique Socket 479 that supports it. One company, AOpen, has been responsible for most of these boards. The i915Ga-HFS is their latest, and it is probably the most conventional Socket 479 desktop board yet.

It's a high performance, full-ATX design based on the Intel 915G desktop chipset with full support for dual-channel DDR2 memory. AOpen's earlier efforts were smaller Micro-ATX boards; the very first one was based on a mobile chipset. This board is laid out in a more conventional manner, with the CPU socket near the top of the board and the RAM DIMMs positioned vertically behind it. Perhaps because it shares so much of its design with its immediate predecessor, the micro-ATX i915GMm-HFS, it's also slightly cheaper, although it still comes at a significant premium compared other similarly featured boards for other processors.

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