BTW,the Sapphire motherboard is listed at around 128 Euro in
Germany and the price includes 19% sales tax.
This works out at around £108.
So it looks like you will be spending around £10 more for a faster CPU,a better IGP and a more extensive feature set.
Its 10% faster in most benchmarks. Not light years
Actually in file decompression and audio encoding it is more like 20% to 50% faster according to the Toms Hardware review.
Yes, have SATA3. Have U seen SATA3 HDD prices? And "many have 5 to 6 SATA and eSATA too". Not true.
None have 6 SATA (yet announced) and two have 5 SATA + 1 eSATA. Two is not "many".
Absolutely wrong as I said
SATA and e-SATA not SATA only.
Every Zacate motherboard mentioned in the first post of this thread has 5 to 6 SATA and e-SATA ports.
BTW,SATA3.0 will become the de-facto SATA standard over the next few years and it is a useful feature to have.
Also,the Zacate motherboards have USB3.0 too.
The dual core Atom ION motherboards are overpriced at £100 and have an absolutely poor feature set for the price.