Thursday, January 13th 2011

ASRock Unveils E350M1 AMD Fusion ''Brazos'' Mini-ITX Motherboard

Better late than never. ASRock finally unveiled its mini-ITX motherboard based on the AMD Brazos platform, featuring AMD Fusion "Zacate" E-350 accelerated processing unit (APU). The APU integrates two x86-64 processing cores based on the "Bobcat" architecture with a DirectX 11 compliant AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics processing core. The ASRock E350M1 is a typical mini-ITX embedded platform motherboard. The board draws power from a standard 24-pin ATX power connector (20-pin will do), though from the looks of it, the same PCB can be reconfigured to have a 2-pin 12V DC power external input for use in some very tight cases.

The APU is wired to two DDR3 DIMM slots, the lone expansion slot is a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical 2.0 x4). The E-350 APU and Hudson M1 chipset have separate heatsinks, the one over the APU is ventilated by a small fan. The chipset gives out four SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and one eSATA 6 Gb/s. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI. Other connectivity features include 8-channel HD audio with optical SPDIF output, gigabit Ethernet, mouse/keyboard combo PS/2, and a number of USB 2.0 ports.
Source: PC Treiber.net
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27 Comments on ASRock Unveils E350M1 AMD Fusion ''Brazos'' Mini-ITX Motherboard

#26
Black Hades
I wish it had 2 Lan ports, so that I can monowall it into a router when it's eventually too old for regular service. In fact give me a spartan board with two gbit lan ports at the same price and chop off the soundcard and the hdmi. Why is 2xLan considered a premium for low power pc's such as this?:rolleyes:
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#27
zAAm
OneMoarits gotta have transformer it may not be IN the but it WILL have a power-brick of some sort
Haha, it seems everyone is taking me too literally. If you read my post again properly, the ON-BOARD PSU will not need a transformer since it runs from 12VDC. You really don't need a transformer to convert from 12V to 5V and 3.3V. You'd probably be best off using one for 115/240V down to 12V, but it doesn't matter where you get that 12V since the power brick isn't on the motherboard. You can even tap 12V from a huge buck converter for all I care, it's not going to be on the motherboard either way. That was my point :rolleyes:
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