Intel has just announced a series of inexpensive i945 chipsets to support dual core Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors. Gigabyte 8I945P-G has become the first motherboard based on one of these chipsets that appeared in our lab.

It's a middle end model, which rectifies the drawback of this chipset for a regular user of inexpensive systems: support for only one Parallel ATA connector. Thus, the board contains IDE RAID controller, Gigabit Ethernet controller connected to PCI Express, and of course HDA (in fact, it supports even 10-channel audio). Good modern characteristics, no excesses, but the price will be hopefully affordable.



Link: Digit Life