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Abit’s
iL-90MV, based around an
Intel
Socket 479 (Core 2 Duo, Core Duo and Core Solo CPUs), would make an ideal base
for a home theatre PC since it has an HDMI port (HDMI to DVI cable included).
An
Asus
OTES Stream compact CPU cooler, along with passively cooled chipset bridges and
Mosfet, make this a very quiet board.
With no graphics slot, there is plenty of space around the components and
slots, which comprise two Dimm slots supporting up to 2GB DDR2 memory, two PCI
slots and a single PCI Express x1 slot. Eight-channel audio with S/PDIF ports is
included, along with Gigabit Ethernet.