Jetway NF93 Core 2 Duo Mobile Mini-ITX Mainboard

[BRiT]

My experience with the Jetway NF93 motherboard has been a positive one. It supports booting from USB and was detected properly with unRaid 4.4.2 and 4.5beta6.

 

It's a mini-itx motherboard supporting Intel's Socket P (Penryn) mobile Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad cpus running upto a 1066 FSB. The northbridge is GM45 and southbridge is ICH9M, so it's well supported in Linux. It offers 2 DDR2 800/667 SO-DIMM slots for 4GB memory. It has 1 laptop PATA connector (44pin ide) for optical or hard-drive support. It has 4 SATA 3GB connectors. For network connectivity it provides 2 Gigabit LAN ports.

 

It's a fairly low power board, claiming 14.5watts, supports some beefy yet low power cpus, and fits nicely in the Chenbro ES34069 case.

 

The possible downsides are the PCI slot instead of PCI-Express, but provides one PCI Express mini-card slot. The graphics core being newer means it was limited under Slackware 12.2 to the generic X11 server, but works significantly better in the Slackware-current (lead up to 13.0) builds.

 

I traded off a 5th sata port for newer graphics and cpu so it could handled x264 and blu-ray streams if operated as a head-end htpc.

 

 

 

 

 

[RobJ]

Thanks, I've added it to the Hardware Compatibility Wiki page.

[BRiT]

Attached are the syslog and dmesg logs from the stock unraid 4.5beta6 usb drive image.