MSI is preparing to release a new Mini ITX motherboard that comes with a pre-installed Intel bay Trail-D processor. The new motherboard is the MSI J1800I and will be available for around $100 USD.
The Mini ITX form factor board features two DDR3 1333MHz SO-DIMM slots, two SATA III 6Gbps ports, and a single PCI-E x1 expansion slot. The aspect that sets this mini ITX board apart is the inclusion of a dual core Intel Celeron J1800 processor clocked at 2.4GHz. This CPU is a Bay Trail-D based on the Silvermont (Atom) micro-architecture. The chip has a 10W TDP and is passively cooled by a bundled aluminum heatsink.
IO options on the MSI J1800I motherboard include:
- 2 x PS/2
- 1 x VGA
- 1 x HDMI
- 1 x DVI
- 1 x USB 3.0
- 2 x USB 2.0
- 1 x GbE
- 3 x Audio
The board could make for a small home server or media box in the living room. The Bay Trail-D processor carries Intel's "Celeron" branding, but is is effectively an OoOE Atom chip. The motherboard+CPU combo should retail for just under $100 and be available soon. More information can be found on this MSI product page.
Enough ports to make a
Enough ports to make a router? No.
Good enough graphics to make an HTPC? No.
Enough SATA ports to make a storage server? No.
Cheap? No.
Can use cheap memory? No
Can play back video competently? Maybe.
I think I’ll wait for a Kabini board.
There is a PCIe slot which
There is a PCIe slot which you could use for an ethernet card.
For some reason dual ethernet only ever appears on the highend boards, I don’t imagine Kabini will be any different.
Everywhere else I have seen
Everywhere else I have seen this story it is $60 not $100 and also that there is going to be a quad core version for $10 more which would be more than enough to do any decent 1080p playback as a media center pc.
Like here
Like here http://techreport.com/news/25892/msi-shows-sub-60-mini-itx-mobo-with-bay-trail-d-onboard
Sounds like a winner.
Sounds like a winner.
Does anybody have an idea
Does anybody have an idea when Intel is going to have Iris graphics that support HDMI 2… is it really going to be 2015?
I’m not sure, finding the
I'm not sure, finding the current Iris Pro in systems is tough much less that version :/.
Willmore: as the article
Willmore: as the article suggest this would make a cheap and perfectly decent small server. If you need more SATA ports than add a PCI Raid card
Problem is that an HP Microserver is simpler and ultimately if you get a discount on the G7 cheaper