Intel D510MO (with integrated Atom 2x 1.66Ghz CPU) [FANLESS] (Remnant)
| 19.01.2010 I installed Windows Server 2008 on this motherboard as I want it as an always on server with low power consumption. The quality of the board appears fine and the manuals are quite good, with large diagrams showing the front panel headers and their required connections. Installing the drivers was slightly more tricky, with compatiblity mode required for some. This is probably because Windows 2008 Server isn't fully supported. Heat dissipation seems to be ok, similar to my old Jetway motherboard which had a N270 processor and 945GSE chipset so the power consumption was probably similar. I have the case fan idling away (connnected to the mobo) and this appears to keep the temperature below 50 deg C. The fan is barely audible at this speed. One minor gripe is the fact I can't find how to manually configure the fan speeds based on temperature so I can't do any more tweaking here. Overall there have been two problems with this motherboard: 1. I had a 2.5" eSata drive enclosure connected to the motherboard, using a USB port for power. It would dissappear from Windows whenever loaded so I speculated the power draw was too high on the USB port. I took the drive out of the enclosure and mounted it internally and it was fine, thus proving it was the USB power draw. My old Jetway board had no such problem (although my laptop does). 2. I'm only intermittently getting 1 Gigabit ethernet. It keeps on auto-negotiating to 100MBps. This could be because Windows 2008 Server isn't properly supported. There does not appear to be any pattern as to when it decides to boot up and operate in Gigabit mode. On the plus side the board appears quite quick compared to my old Jetway board. I'm very happy with it although the gigabit problem might force me to try another OS as I its 3-times slower to transfer files in 100MBps mode.