Reply 32880 of 52728, by xjas
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Here's another thing I didn't buy, but it was lying on the shelf at a thrift shop. A thoroughly weird "Pegatron IMIMV-CF" motherboard:
What we have here is an mATX desktop board with an mPGA478 socket, three mini-PCIe slots (one is just empty solder pads), desktop-type SATA ports, SODIMM memory slots, and an MXM slot for graphics. WTF?
A bit of internet sleuthing indicates it came out of some kind of HP all-in-one, which makes sense I guess. I originally thought it'd be for Pentium M CPUs but it looks like it only supports Penryn C2Ds. HP's site also claims it has a GeForce 9300m GPU under that heat sink, but then what is the MXM slot for? Power is delivered through a little 6-pin port on the bottom, so god only knows what that takes.
What a bizarre board. There's actually a lot of mobile-type expandability built into this thing that I doubt they ever intended anyone to use. HP parts-bin engineering at its best.
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