This Intel board is a very strong candidate for a simple DIY HTPC. This Intel® Desktop Board DG45FC is a small but powerful desktop board with integrated HDMI display output and hardware accelerated decode during high-definition playback. With support of Intel® Core™2 Duo processors and up to 1333 FSB, you can expect a lot from this tiny desktop board! Throw in a CPU of your choice, a hard drive and memory you’ll have a pretty powerful little computer to to communicate, listen, watch, play, and surf.

Features

• Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD onboard graphics subsystem with integrated HDMI + DVI-I display ports
• 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one optical S/PDIF digital audio output using the IDT 92HD73E audio codec
• Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82567LF Gigabit Ethernet Controller
• 5 Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 1 eSATA back port with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
• One PCI Express* x1 bus add-in card connectors
• Two 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• Intel® Core™2 Duo processor, Pentium and celeron in an LGA775 socket