Strengths: cheap, low boltage, small

Weaknesses: heat

Summary: This is great board but only have 1 memory slot and support up to 1gb. If it's support 2 GB, will be great for HTPC or HPC. But It still cheap, and low boltage to eat. I hope to next version of mb got more sata ports and memory slots.

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Strengths: All in one solution in a 7x7 square. CPU, Video, Sound, NIC onboard.

Weaknesses: 1.2GHz Celeron CPU is a little weak for running windows however it is just fine for linux

Summary: This Motherboard was chosen for its price, size and all in one design. I needed its small size to be able to fit an entire computer system into an R/C Mustang to be entered into a contest for Maxium PC. The R/C car will still drive as well as run linux. VGA, Sound and USB will be placed in the front grill below the fog lamps.

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Strengths: Less Voltage, Small space to case taken

Weaknesses: CPU

Summary: Its like very good motherboard from Intel. Everybody knows how intel's mother board is great and safe from error. This mother board is unbelievable cheaper than other ITX boards and GREAT Performance. Only thing is S-Video is not included so i put Extra Graphic Card. BUt Still GREAT AND CHEAP!

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Strengths: Low cost. Boots very quickly. I am happy that it has 2 SATA connectors on the board.

Weaknesses: The fanless processor heat sink seems to be pretty warm. I will probably put a fan in the case.

Summary: This seems like it will be a great board to use for my car PC application. I would definitely recommend it.

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Strengths: Low power, good price, silent, good performance, runs Linux well, perfect for embedded PC applicaitons.

Weaknesses: Heatsink a little high. Only 1 PCI slot and one ethernet port. Few bios options. Heat sink kind of tall for some mini-ITX cases.

Summary: I used this to build a router using the ipcop router distribution. It worked fine. The entire system uses about 30 watts AC when idleing and 40 watts under peak load in a system with a cheap (and probably inefficient) ATX power supply in a microATX case, an old 2.5" harddrive, 512 MB memory, and an Intel gigabit NIC. The performance of this is overkill, but the whole thing cost about $150 and makes a nice router/firewall/proxy/content filter. I'm very happy with it. I wish it had a bios that would allow underclocking/undervolting for even lower power, since I don't need all the horsepower. The price is great compared to other mini-ITX boards, and the performance is better too. I wish there was an inexpensive way to put in more Ethernet cards on it so I could separate my wireless and wired networks. I could get a dual port NIC, but those are expensive. Anyway, its hard to complain given the price.

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Strengths: Very Small size, expandable

Weaknesses: No s-video connector

Summary: The Ubuntu forum folks have got a pretty good Linux video driver compiled for it now. Windows XP Pro runs well and pretty zippy. I didn't try it, but the on-board video probably isn't good enough to run Vista with aero glass on.

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Strengths: Ultra-quiet (obviously, it has no CPU fan), nice and stable, and best of all, it "feels" as fast during everyday use as my 2.4 Ghz Athlon 64, and crazily enough, my Q6600 quad-core. It's fast enough for things like web browsing, e-mail, listening to music, and even watching DVD's, using post-processing.

Weaknesses: Maximum of one stick of RAM, no DVI output, quite slow at things that require processing power and worst of all, it runs EXTREMELY HOT unless you have a fan blowing on the heatsink. Also, either Intel or SiS need to release Linux video drivers for this board.

Summary: This would have gotten a 5, if they either used a smaller heatsink with a fan (like the original D201GLY), or the heatsink at least had mounts of some sort for a 40mm fan. I was able to attach a 40mm fan that I had laying around, but I've got ALOT of experience modding computer-related items, and it still took me a very long time to do that, because of how little room there is between items on the board, and it not having mounts. The D201GLY2 is best for things like web browsing and e-mail, although it does a great job at non-hi-def video/DVD's, also. I'm very happy with my purchase.

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Strengths: Fanless, small, CHEAP.

Weaknesses: None

Summary: I'm using this as a Debian home server, rock solid and with a quiet psu, I barely notice the thing running. I've read of some people experiencing heat problems, but they must be running the wrong case. Use this board in a micro atx case like http://www.apextechusa.com/products.asp?pID=4 with a fan on the side, runs nice and cool.

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