Comments on: Gigabyte N5105I H Intel Celeron N5105 mITX Motherboard Launched

By: Tik B Lang

Tik B Lang — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 16:45:41 +0000

I like mITX , if something like this i7 with 2×32 SODIMM exist I don’t mind paying extra money. Gigabytes can even sell the heat sink that will work with the i7.

By: bushi1147

bushi1147 — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:54:56 +0000

ASRock made a couple of boards similar to this only for low power pc or Htpc

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:27:40 +0000

@Jay; I’d absolutely agree that this thing doesn’t seem to be aimed at network appliance type applications(the CPU only has 8 PCIe lanes to work with; but they could have brought out a few more to provide at least a 4x expansion slot if so); but that fact makes me a bit curious about who it is for:

Especially at this price point, the overhead of the fully ATX power inputs/implied need for a PSU, etc. seem like they’ll make this a non-starter versus competing minimum-viable-mini-PC products that skip all that and just have a single DC input, no PCIe x1 slot, just one storage m.2 and one wireless option m.2; so it doesn’t seem to be aimed at integrators/PC OEMs; but without either at least an x4 expansion slot or a couple of x1s, it doesn’t seem like it’s aimed at the low-volume/DIY appliance use case; which just seems to leave it between purposes.

I wouldn’t say no to one if somebody gave it to me; but given that the expansion capability is too low to fit most custom cases; and the full normal-ATX-PC style makes it more expensive than task specific competitors, it seems like it’s neither one nor the other.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:41:05 +0000

There’s nothing different between this Atom ITX board and prior gen Atom ITX boards. None of the mainstream boards have beyond a single x1 slot. This board’s M.2 M key slot is x2 so it’s not suitable for most NICs. With only 8 lanes, and the lanes not even being able to be fused to a single x8 lane, there are real constraint decisions to be made in a design. Each additional controller (even something like using an Intel ethernet MAC, wireless CVNi) consumes at least 1 lane. Jasper/Elkhart Lake lane configuration has never been released, but on Gemini Lake with 6 lanes the lane fusing was limited to: 1×4 + 1×2, 4×1, 2×1 + 2×2. These platforms are meant for POS systems or low power office PCs.

By: TTSS

TTSS — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:31:02 +0000

What an inefficient use of PCIe lanes lol

By: Slash/

Slash/ — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:29:12 +0000

One SATA port is all anyone will ever need!