Matbe has scored some pictures of an upcoming motherboard from Asus that goes under the name of I220GC and this is quite an interesting board, as unlike what you'd expect, it's not a mini ITX board, but rather mATX which adds some interesting possibilities for this Celeron 220 powered motherboard.

The CPU is clocked at 1.2GHz on a 533MHz bus. It's a single core CPU with 512kb of L2 cache and it has a TDP of 19W. This in itself isn't all that exciting, but the CPU is soldered onto the motherboard, which means that you can't upgrade it in the future.

The chipset is the now somewhat infamous 945GC; yes that is the same chipset as some Atom processors will be using. Due to this, the integrated graphics of this motherboard is fairly poor as it relies on Intel's old GMA950. As there's only a D-sub connector for display connectivity, this might not be too much of an issue, but this motherboard has one ace up its sleeve. One interesting point we discovered was that Asus has enabled support for up to 800MHz bus speed in the BIOS, so it might be possible to overclock the CPU.

As this is a mATX motherboard, it has a spare PCIe x16 slot, as well as a x1 PCIe and two PCI slots. This means that you can actually add a graphics card of  your own choice if you'd consider this board suitable for your new HTPC or whatever project you'd want to use it for. It's worth noting that the memory speed is limited by the bus speed, so using anything faster than 533MHz modules, unless you're planning on trying to overclock this board, is pointless.

Other features include 10/100Mbit Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, 5.1-channel HD audio, two PS/2 ports, a serial and parallel port, two memory slots, four SATA ports and an IDE connector. Pretty basic by today's standards, but not too bad, considering.

We're curious if this is a dry-run before Asus is going to launch an Atom-powered version of this board, as the 200-series of Atom processors should be pin compatible and will as such allow Asus to bring out a new product just by swapping the CPU that's being soldered onto the board.

You can find the pictures here