Giada Outs Mini-ATX Intel Cedar Trail Motherboard

Better known to Asian computer users than to us Westerners, Giada has recently unveiled its first mini-ITX motherboard built using Intel’s Cedar Trail Atom platform, dubbed the MI-D2700G, which seems to target HTPC users.

Just as its name implies, this compact motherboard is built around an Atom D2700 Cedarview processor, and pairs together the dual-core 2.13GHz x86 CPU with an Nvidia GT 520 graphics card packing 512MB of DDR3 VRAM.

Both of these are cooled by an active heatskin that covers most of the PCB space available on the board, forcing the company to drop support for DIMM memory and go instead with the smaller SO-DIMM modules that are usually found inside notebooks.

Two such slots are provided offering users the capability to install up to 4GB of system memory, while the rest of the expansion options include two SATA 3Gbps ports and a mini PCI Express x1 slot.

This is placed right under the motherboard’s heatsink and can be populated with an 802.11 b/g/n module in order to provide WiFi support to Giada’s creation.

An additional mini PCIe slot is available on the opposite side of the board, which seems destined to be used for adding an mSATA solid state drive.

To the rear of the MI-D2700G, Giada has installed all the I/O ports that are required for an HTPC system, including all the important VGA and HDMI video outputs.

But these are only the tip of the iceberg, as the motherboard also comes equipped with four USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port and with 5.1-channel audio (via an ALC662 codec) with optical S/PDIF out, according to TechPowerUp.

Sadly, no details regarding pricing and availability were made public by Giada, so right now we don’t know when this mini-ITX board will arrive into retail.

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