Very strange indeed. It has SATA and the layout and components around the CPU area look much later than the CPU would indicate, but it also has an AMR slot. The super low powered CPU and electrolytic caps make me think its an extremely low budget board, but the caps aren't swollen... so it's either post-capacitor plague era (2008 or newer) with an extremely slow CPU, or it is actually from 2002-2007 but it isn't super low budget (so it has decent caps). Either situation makes it really strange. The fact that it says "Motherboard" screen printed on the heatsink just makes it even more confusing. Why bother? 🤣

Can't imagine a situation where such a large, expandable board would be needed for a system in the mid 2000s with an ultra low power CPU that is probably bested by a 400Mhz Pentium II.

Unless it was designed specifically as a replacement for older motherboards for industrial or business purposes...

😕 😕 😕 😕

EDIT: Not the same board, but the closest I could find: http://www.dfi-itox.com/pages/products/mother … ntrol/GVPC3.php

It sure is an odd mix of parts. I did not see the sata ports. Now that I take a second look at it whats up with the 3rd IDE port and sata port down at the bottom of the board? Is that VIA chip above it a IDE/STAT controller? I can't make it out from the photos.

I do vaguely recall a board like that being made for the eden X2 for reviews, but I thought it had PCI-E.
My guise is that VIA made it for testing or review.

It’s made by VIA themselves, I would imagine it’s an industrial board for some sort of application which doesn’t require a lot of horsepower.

ShovelKnight wrote:

It’s made by VIA themselves.

I also believe this.

ShovelKnight wrote:

I would imagine it’s an industrial board for some sort of application which doesn’t require a lot of horsepower.

But why the AGP and AMR slot? The CD audo headers also are out of place for industrial applications. And the 4 pin CPU header? If its a 600mhz Eden it pulls less then 10w

Looking at the image I can notice the unusual southbridge with the shiny round heat spreader, which came bundled with socket 478 or some socket A boards (e.g. VT8237A)
Typically, you will find normal BGA southbridges (e.g. VT8235) on Pentium III or VIA C3/EDEN boards.

Also, the I/O layout closely resembles a socket 478/early LGA775 board, with plenty of USB ports, onboard VGA below the printer port, 3 vertical audio ports and a missing game port (usually found on Socket 370 era boards)

My guess is that it may be a industrial board or a prototype (not sure yet tbh).

Think it actually says "Mainboard" on the heatsink which is a branding line they've used on their low power & embedded ranges (EPIA / PC-1)

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote:

Think it actually says "Mainboard" on the heatsink which is a branding line they've used on their low power & embedded ranges (EPIA / PC-1)

Oops, yeah, I read that and then typed motherboard. Still kind of hokey. 😊