Giddy up for another AMD "Bobcat" based E-350 media center hardware with Zotac. Specs after the jump.
This motherboard packs mostly everything you would want in a media center and it can even double up in some other duties, courtesy of the dual SO-DIMM slots. Passively cooled, it packs quite the cooler but again disappoints the "picky" me, which can't stand low end, high electrical noise emitting chokes that seem to plague Zotac motherboards as of late. Other than that, solid part, which even packs GbE, 802.11n and don't forget the slotted PCIe x4 slot for that discrete GPU upgrade a couple of years from now.
Prices start at around $110 with availability expected soon. Zotac has also been selling it's AMD E-350 Zbox SFF PC for a while now, some models even pre-built with BluRay drives and a 2.5" HDD.
| Model | FUSION350-A-E |
| Chipset | AMD M1 |
| CPU Socket | N/A (Integrated CPU) |
| Dimensions | 6.7in x 6.7in - 170mm x 170mm |
| Form Factor | Mini-ITX |
| Memory Size | Up to 8GB |
| Memory Slots | 2 x 204-pin SO-DIMM |
| Memory Type | DDR3 1066 |
| Onboard Audio | 1 HD Audio Port (8-channel), 1 Digital Optical S/PDIF output |
| Onboard LAN | Ethernet: 10/100/1000Mbps, Wireless: 802.11n (300 Mb/s) |
| Onboard Video | AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 |
| Package Contents | 3 x SATA cables 1 x DVI-to-VGA adapter 1 x I/O back plate 2 x WiFi antennas |
| PCI | 1 x PCI Express x4 (open-end), 1 x Mini-PCI Express (occupied by WiFi card) |
| SATA | 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s, 1 x eSATA 3.0 Gb/s |
| USB | 4 x USB 3.0 ports (2 on back panel, 2 via header), 6 x USB 2.0 ports (4 on back panel, 2 via header) |
| Video Ports | 1 x HDMI, 1 x DVI, 1 x DisplayPort |
| Warranty | 1-Year Standard Warranty; 2-Year Extended Warranty |
4 comments:
Intel just annihilated AMD again in performance and power consumption. Bulldozer? More like Bulldozed.
http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2032
think again
all APUs gets launched 11th of june
lets see how intel copes with that
APU is garbage. Who wants outdated, obsolete Phenomenally Slow 2 core when I can have high performance, lowest power Ivy Bridge cores which annihilates Phenomenally Slow 2 and Bulldozed?
Guess it depends on what you want to do. Unfortunately "Ivy Bridge" is still not out and it is not gearing up to fit the same low power environments as the E-350. CPU performance is not great, that's true, but heterogeneous computing is where we're going anyway, be it with GPU SIMD arrays or CPU SIMD arrays, where in current CPUs the SIMD arrays are not that wide or plentiful.
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