For those who are interested in

For those who are interested in building very extremely small footprint systems, here's something made for you. The Albatron PM800 Pro motherboard, based on VIA PM800 chipset (for Intel P4), is actually a Micro ATX board. But the interesting thing about this board is that it's actually smaller then all other Micro ATX board we've ever seen. Priced at $ 119, and found at Cybermind, this interesting board is a steal!

 

The packaging of the Albatron PM800. From the size of this box, you might mistake it for a Graphics Card packaging.

 

A label found on the packaging, with a rough summary of what's included on this board.

 

The board itself. This board is just slightly larger then those high end graphics card. One of the noticeable difference with this board, is the missing floppy connector. It seems that Albatron had already ditched the idea of floppy disks...

 

The VIA VT8237 Southbridge present on the board. It gives control of the 2 SATA ports, and also RAID capabilities on those ports too.

 

The rear I/O connectors available on the board.

 

A very large passive heatsink cools the VIA PM800 Northbridge.

 

This VIA VT6103L takes charge of the 10/100Mbps LAN connection.

 

The Realtek ALC655 chipset would take control of the onboard 6 Channel Audio.

 

The motherboard's heatsink mounting clips are secured by a large bracket, to prevent warping of the board. Well done in this area!