Motherboard Selection

Form Factor:

• HTPC 100, 180, 200, 280 & 288 -- Micro ATX

• HTPC 300, 400 & 500 -- Micro ATX or Full ATX

Motherboard list that supports HTPC 100, 180 200 280 & 288

Intel Socket LGA 775

• Intel BOXDG33BUC

• Intel BLKDG33BUC

• Intel BOXDG33TLM

• Intel BOXDG965OTMKR

• Intel BLKDG965SSCK

• Intel BLKDQ965GFEKR

• Intel BOXDG965SSCK

• Intel BOXDG965OTMKR

• Intel BOXD945GTPLR

• Intel BOXD945GTPLKR

• Intel BOXDQ965GFEKR

• Intel D945GTP Executive Series 

• Intel D945GTPLKR Media Series

• ASUS P5L-VM 1394

• ASUS P5B-VM DO

• ASUS P5B-VM

• Asus P5LD2-VM DH

• GIGABYTE GA-G33M-S2

• GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R

• GIGABYTE GA-965GM-S2

• ABIT LG-80 

• Foxconn G9657MA-8EKRS2H

• Foxconn 945G7MA-8EKRS2

• Foxconn 945G7MA-8EKRS2H

• Foxconn 915M03-G-8EKRS2

• ECS 945G-M3 (1.0b)

• ECS 945G-M3 (V1.0B Viiv)

• MSI G33M-FI

• MSI G965M-FI

• MSI G965M-FIR

• MSI Q965MDO-FI

Intel Socket 478

• MSI 945GT

• ABIT IL-90MV

Intel Socket 479 (Mobile CPU)

• ASUS N4L-VM DH

AMD64 Socket 754

• ASUS K8V-MX

• DFI K8M800-MLVF

• ECS C51G-M754

• GIGABYTE GA-K8N51GMF-RH

AMD64 Socket 939

• DFI RS482 INFINITY

• Foxconn NF4K8MC-EKRS

• Foxconn 6150K8MA-8EKRS

• ECS RS480M V1.0

• ECS RS482-M (1.0A)

• GIGABYTE GA--K8N51GMF-9

• MSI RS482M4-ILD

• MSI K8NGM2-FID

• ASUS A8N-VM CSM

• eVGA 131-K8-NF44-AX

AMD64 Socket AM2

• ASUS M2A-VM

• ASUS

• ASUS M2NPV-VM

• ASUS M2NBP-VM CSM

• Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H

• Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G

• Gigabyte GA-M61PM-S2

• MSI K9K9AGM-FID

• MSI K9NGM2-FID

• MSI K9NBPM2-FID

• ABIT NF-M2 nView

• DFI C51PV-M2/G

• Foxconn MCP61SM2MA-ERS2H

Motherboard list that supports HTPC 300, 400 & 500

Full ATX motherboard, select your own as long you have 4 USB and 1 IEEE 1394 onboard ports

Why we list the motherboard for our case?

The thing that makes a difference in selecting the motherboard for HTPC 100, 180, 200, 280 & 288 is the IEEE 1394 firewire port. It is very fast external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of up to 400Mbps (in 1394a). One of the most use application in a HTPC system is to connect the digital camcorder so that you can capture video file directly to hard disk in real time without using the A/V cables.

For example, let say you are planning to use LGA Socket 775 Intel CPU processor, there are only 4 boards in the Intel official website that support an onboard IEEE 1394a port. (allow you to connect the front 1394 port internally to the motherboard) If you don't plan to use the IEEE 1394 port, you will have more than 50 choices of Micro-ATX motherboard.

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