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I was looking online for an ITX motherboard that suports laptop DDR3 memory because I have a whole bunch and is under $50 while still having an x16 slot. Looking at eBay i found this motherboard :

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AVALUE-EMX-QM77-A1R-Intel-Ivy-brifge-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-QM77-rPGA988-mobile-/251716627012?pt=Motherboards&hash=item3a9b7aea44

 

I dont mind if it arrives tomorrow or in two months as long as i get it. But what OS is this motherboard compatible with?

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What CPU are you using

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You have Win7 and Win8 drivers on their site (32 and 64bit):

http://www.avalue.com.tw/en/product/detail.aspx?ccid=2&cid=9&id=68&zid=672

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I have an old laptop with a celeron 1000m which I can easily put in there, it is compatible with the chipset. I might upgrade later to an i5

Most laptops have their chips soldered on

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No, many Ivy bridge CPUs (including that of the laptop I have) are Socket G2 (rPGA 988) processors. This is the same socket on the motherboard. 

there are some asrock atom mainboards that take sodimms.

 

I have a tv tuner card, I need this for my htpc. As for the ram, It is really hard to sell laptop ram as it goes for as low as 30 dollars for 4 gb

your tv tuner card wont need x16.

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there are some asrock atom mainboards that take sodimms.

 

your tv tuner card wont need x16.

 

but the good atoms (j1900) are like 70 dollars. The tuner card is a physical x16, of course it won't need the full x16 bandwith but i don't really feel like cutting it. 

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Most laptops have their chips soldered on

False. Very few do.

 

Only ULVs and HQs do on the mainstream lineup. (E.g. i5 4200u and i7 4710HQ).

 

And most SoC style chips and x86 "risc" chips.

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