As many of you are now aware, the Small Form Factor sector of the PC market seems to be exploding and there are new products being released all the time. The smallest of all these form factors is MiniITX at just 170mm x 170mm. Manufacturers have very little space to work with and up until now the performance of MiniITX systems have been very limited. Best suited to office or home theater PC use, Commell have brought a high performance Pentium 4/Celeron based solution to market to try and fix this problem. Lets see if it lives up to the initial promise.

What are the specifications of the Motherboard?

• Compact Mini-FlexATX Form Factor @ 170 x 170 mm
• Socket 478 supports Intel mPGA478 Pentium 4 / Celeron CPU @ 533/400 MHz FSB
• Chipset: Intel 845G series (845GL/GV/GE) GMCH and 82801DB ICH4
• DRAM: 1 GB DDR200/266 SDRAM
• PCI Enhanced IDE: dual Channels support 4 ATAPI devices up to UltraATA/100 with 100Mbps of data transfer rate. One 40-pin and one 44-pin IDE port for both of desktop and slim type ATAPI devices.
• VGA Interface: Intel 845G (GL/GV/GE) GMCH built-in Intel Extreme Graphics with 266 MHz VGA core, 256-bit 3D engine and dynamic video memory
• LAN Interface: Intel PRO/100+ 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet interface
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface with up to 480 Mbps of data transfer rate
• IEEE 1394 interface with 100/200/400 Mbps of data transfer rate
• TV-out interface with AV and S-video output
• AC97 3D 5.1-CH / SPDIF audio interface
• I/O Ports: two serial port, parallel port, FDD, IrDA, PS/2 keyboard and mouse port
• One PCI slot up to 2 bus master PCI expansive slots via riser card
• Pentium 4 additional +12V power free for standard ATX power supply