Jetway NC94-510-LF Mini-ITX Atom Motherboard

Conclusion:

Overall my impression of this board has left somewhat of a bitter taste in my mouth. The board itself is good for its intended use which was a home server or media center with little flexibility thought I would like to note that the media center aspect of this board is mitigated by the requirement of an additional graphics card because the board is lacking Nvidia ION support. My frustration with the lack of network support will hopefully be fixed in a future driver release from Jetway though as of the time of the this writing this board would not allow the installation of the network driver in the several OS’s. I tried even grabbing the driver directly from Intel with no success. With the exception of the LAN the machine handled normal computing tasks well maybe not as good as a traditional desktop processor but I rarely had to wait for a task to be complete when opening applications or normal operation of the PC, obviously lack of LAN cripples any sort of media server or network tasks but for testing purposes I installed a USB wireless N card so I could see the impact of serving up Hulu content to the TV the processor handled this content with very little stress. This test leads me to conclude that if the network driver issue gets fixed you will have a great media center/server and one that stays cool and runs on sub 50w of power.

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