Well, December has come and brought the first mainboard for Pentium 4 processors based on SiS650. As we have expected (see this news story), the company to launch this mainboard appeared Elitegroup, SiS’s closest partner.
The new solution is called L4S5MG and its specifications are pretty common, like those of any other office solution. The board is designed in MicroATX form-factor, supports Socket478 Pentium 4 CPUs and features 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GB PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAM. Besides, there are 3 PCI slots, 1 AGP 4x slot and a CNR slot. The board features an integrated SiS315 graphics core, ATA/100 (due to SiS961 South Bridge), AC’97 sound (Line-In and Out, microphone In, game port and CD-In), optional 10/100 Ethernet (Realtek 8100B).
As we have already mentioned, SiS650 seems to be the most attractive of all the integrated chipsets with the AGP graphics support. Due to its price in the first place (around $25 for ECS).