Wednesday, January 5th 2011
ASUS Readies Fully-Loaded Brazos-Powered E35MI-I Deluxe Motherboard
Closely trailing other, ASUS also made its AMD Brazos platform motherboard public. The E35MI-I Deluxe from ASUS is filled to the brim with features, its most significant being a completely silent passive heatsink design that keeps the system cool without eating into precious mini-ITX board space. A large monolithic heatsink covers the central portion of the motherboard, cooling both the AMD Fusion E-350 dual-core processor and the Hudson M1 chipset. It uses a dense aluminum fin array to which heat is supplied from its base by heat pipes.
The processor is wired to two DDR3 DIMM slots, the lone expansion slot is a PCI-Express 2.0 x16. There are five internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and an eSATA 6 Gb/s. The rear panel is an equally crowded place. There's 6-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 (two rear + two internal) and a number of USB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth, WiFi b/g/n, optical SPDIF, and display connectivity that includes DVI and HDMI. Featuring Turbo Key II, the board can overclock the processor at the turn of a small switch. ASUS is also readying a "lite" version of this motherboard, which is likely to lack some features, such as WiFi.
Source:
Bit-Tech.net
The processor is wired to two DDR3 DIMM slots, the lone expansion slot is a PCI-Express 2.0 x16. There are five internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports, and an eSATA 6 Gb/s. The rear panel is an equally crowded place. There's 6-channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 (two rear + two internal) and a number of USB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth, WiFi b/g/n, optical SPDIF, and display connectivity that includes DVI and HDMI. Featuring Turbo Key II, the board can overclock the processor at the turn of a small switch. ASUS is also readying a "lite" version of this motherboard, which is likely to lack some features, such as WiFi.
22 Comments on ASUS Readies Fully-Loaded Brazos-Powered E35MI-I Deluxe Motherboard
HD5000 series do, the graphics are HD5xxx based.
the bluetooth dongle on the rear as the sapphire ? or is it something else, some guy in the sapphire board comment wondered about the same thing...
now two boards with it... hmm..
Price on any of these yet?I believe it is the bluetooth dongle.
that means, full mpeg2/mpeg4, H.264 and VC-1 decode in dual stream 1080p
they also support MVC for 3D blu-ray, bitstreaming of dtshd/truehd, lpcm 7.1 channel and to top it off DirectX 11 :P
For example, AMD 890GX chipset has Radeon HD 4290 graphics. Radeon HD 4xxx support 7.1 LPCM audio but 890GX does not.
If AMD crippled embedded graphics in chipsets they certainly can do so in APU.
EDIT:think of it like this: you can remove that and use the mini pcie e for a solid state and have a completely noiseless computer
the audio device is easy to swap.
I would suspect that AMD might be fighting for every milliwatt in this chip and give up PAP support logic for die size and power consumption.
Although, I could be wrong. In November PC Perspective said that "According to AMD, the official specification sheet includes: DTS-HD Master-Audio Bitstream Capable - Yes"
www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1036&type=expert&pid=3
EDIT:
Zotac announced HD audio bitstreaming in its Brazos-based ZBox
www.htpcreviews.org/zotac-unveils-new-zbox-blu-ray-ad03-series
But why there was nothing about it in AMD press release? They mentioned UVD3 but not HD audio.
www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-fusion-apu-era-2011jan04.aspx
lack of active cooling seems win too, silence in mini itx applications will win over many customers imo.
I know its different tech, but my Atom/Ion has a solid base with thick fins on top, and it can run passive all day long.
The 890GX is just a updated 790GX, that means it is still base on the old HD2400 gprahics.
The name does not mean shit on IGPs.
I think this board looks daaaaamn sexy - I just hope it doesn't suffer from "looks over function".
Is there an eta or price on this bad boy?
790gx = hd3300 (hd3200 with more clock)
so, no. its based on the HD 3xxx series.