Sapphire debuts two mini-ITX motherboards

First up is the IPC-AM2DD690G which is built on a blue PCB and as the name suggests, uses the AMD 690G chipset. It has HDMI output, a D-sub connector, four USB 2.0 ports, 10/100Mbit Ethernet, two PS/2 ports and three audio jacks around the back. It only works with AM2 processors (max 65W TDP) which seems a little bit limiting, unless the information we've had is wrong, as we'd expect it to work with AM2+ processors as well. Other features include a single DIMM slot, a PCI slot, two SATA connectors, an IDE and floppy connector, headers for four extra USB 2.0 ports and a TV-out header.

The second board is the ICP-AM2SO690E which is oddly enough based on the AMD 690E chipset. This board has a single PS/2 port, six USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, a D-sub, Gigabit Ethernet, three audio jacks and two serial ports around the back. It also has a pair of SO-DIMM memory slots, a PCI slot, two SATA connectors, an IDE connector, two headers for four additional USB 2.0 ports, an S/PDFI out header and a few more IPC like features such as LVDS, power for an LCD backlight inverter, a DOM power connector and even a good old fashioned IrDA header.