Thursday, May 8th 2014
ASRock Intros Celeron J1900-based Q1900DC-ITX Motherboard
ASRock rolled out the Q1900DC-ITX, a low-power computing motherboard based on Intel Celeron J1900 "Bay Trail" SoC. The chip embeds a quad-core x86-64 CPU clocked at 2.00 GHz, with Turbo Boost speeds of up to 2.42 GHz. The board is designed to draw power from an external power brick, over 2-pin DC-in. It uses a chunky fan-less heatsink to cool the SoC, which is wired to two DDR3L SO-DIMM slots. Expansion includes one PCI-Express 2.0 x1, and an mPCIe. Storage connectivity doesn't let down, and includes two each of SATA 6 Gb/s and SATA 3 Gb/s. The board offers legacy connectivity such as LPT and COM over headers. Display outputs include DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub. 8-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, two each of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0/1.1, and PS/2 mouse/keyboard connectors make for the rest of it.
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FanlessTech
7 Comments on ASRock Intros Celeron J1900-based Q1900DC-ITX Motherboard
Unless fan has some adapter pin to sata
I see the sata power pins now lol
BTW, I like the ability to delete my own posts on this forum. Just double posted then, and was able to delete it myself. Less tedious work for the mods.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128698
$87 plus freight, plus drive, plus PSU, plus case, plus OS....... Easily a $350 build. Or A4-4000 in a ITX board for the same price and much more user friendly and i3 performance, or save more and get a 25W APU with still way better graphics and the ability to actually use your device, and upgrade it.
www.anandtech.com/show/7933/the-desktop-kabini-review-part-1-athlon-5350-am1/7
A similar AM1 board alone costs about 55 plus another 40 to 65 for the CPU for more than double the power consumption and a fan. And what are you gonna upgrade it to? AM1 has exactly 4 skus. Will you be crossing your fingers for future unannounced processors that might fit in a board you buy today?
And the GPU. They are both worthless for gaming but both provide hardware acceleration for 1080p H.264 decoding. And both should handle 1080p Hi10p software decoding. What else do you need the GPU for in this kind of system?
And why A4-4000? Celeron G1820 is a much better choice since the GPU on the A4-4000 sucks anyway.(edit: h81 mini itx boards are cheaper too)