Jetway NC96 NC96-510-LF

Late last year we reviewed the Jetway NC92 Atom IPC motherboard that was a nice Mini ITX board with an Intel Atom N230 processor. A few weeks after that, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the new Pineview processors were shown off. The Atom N400 and D510 Pineview CPUs are only a moderate upgrade from the very common Diamondville Atoms, but the newer Atoms are beginning to work their way into more nettops and netbooks. Jetway is one of the vendors that was quick to design a new IPC motherboard that bears the Intel Atom D510 dual-core processor with Intel GMA 3150 graphics and the NM10 Express Chipset.

Specifications:

Processor
- Intel Atom Processor D510 (45nm, FSB 667MHz, 1.66GHz, 1024Kb L2 Cache)

Chipset
- Atom Processor D510/D410 + NM10 Express Chipset
- 667MHz FSB

Memory
- 2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM Sockets
- DDR2-800/667 SDRAM up to 8GB

Expansion Slots
- 1 x PCI

Audio
- Realtek ALC662 6-Channel HD Audio

Ethernet LAN
- RTL8111DL Gigabit LAN

BIOS
- AMI 8MB DPI Flash ROM

Form Factor
- Mini ITX

Contents:

The Jetway NC96 motherboard has two models: the NC96FL-410-LF and NC96FL-510-LF. Jetway had supplied us with the NC96FL-510-LF for review and it boasts the D510 Atom while the other model uses the slower, single-core D410 processor. The product packaging for the NC96 motherboard was similar to that of the NC92. Included with the mini ITX motherboard was the rear I/O panel, a power adapter for powering one molex, one SATA, and one FDD device off the motherboard's DC power connection via a molex interface, and two Serial ATA data cables. This is now our second time reviewing a Jetway product.