MicroATX IGP motherboards tend to garner a lot of attention from home theatre PC builders, and jeers from everyone else. Still, it's hard to resist the allure of a platform that includes on board HDMI and graphics suitable for everyday desktop applications... particularly in this depressing economic climate.

At Computex 2009 Gigabyte showed off the Intel Q45 based GA-EQ45M-S2 motherboard along with a stack of G45 Express based platforms; including the GA-EQ45M-S2, GA-EG45M-UD2H, GA-EG41MF-US2H, GA-G41M-ES2H, GA-EG41M-US2H, and entry level GA-Ep41-UD3L motherboard.