Friday, May 6th 2016

BIOSTAR Announces New Motherboards with "Braswell" Refresh Processors

BIOSTAR proudly announces a new line up of motherboards featuring the new 14nm Intel Braswell Refresh SoC processors that feature many improvements from its older 22nm counterpart Baytrail SoC. The new 14nm processors offer a more efficient yet powerful experience than its predecessor whilst consuming less power and producing less heat. The various improvements also introduce new performance enhancements for both CPU and GPU guaranteeing a more refined visual experience.

With the new processor architecture comes new enhancements over the older-generation of processors. Besides improvements in processing speed, Braswell Refresh boasts a new 14nm fabrication process which gives the SoC a smaller die that needs less power (6w) and produces less heat. A heavily improved 8th-gen Intel HD Graphics processor with 12 Execution Units (EUs) is baked into the SoC compared to the 4 EUs of the older gen model. Connectivity is also improved with native support for DDR3L-1600 speeds, SATAIII and up to 4 USB3.0 devices.
Intel's die-shrink allows the new Braswell Refresh SoC processors to operate with less current while improving performance and allows more clock rate headroom for frequency increases on lower workloads when necessary along with the other technical advantages brought on by the die-size reduction.

An improved Intel HD Graphics GPU will be baked into the new SoCs which improves performance for multimedia tasks such as watching HD videos and better desktop graphics for productivity allowing for a richer experience with an increase in execution units to handle today's more demanding visual processing.
Native support for DDR3L-1600 allows the new Braswell Refresh SoCs to access memory at a faster rate for improved system responsiveness.

Here's a quick rundown of the older generation models versus the new Braswell Refresh SoC processors:
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7 Comments on BIOSTAR Announces New Motherboards with "Braswell" Refresh Processors

#1
Assimilator
Ugh, no full-length PCIe slots on the mITX boards = can't use an addon controller (e.g. RAID card).
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#2
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
AssimilatorUgh, no full-length PCIe slots on the mITX boards = can't use an addon controller (e.g. RAID card).
They are open ended slots so yes you can. Bigger issue is the horrid support pcie 1x 2.0? Seriously was looking at these until that.
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#3
Chaitanya
No Serial ports on those mitx boards is a letdown.
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#4
theonedub
habe fidem
cdawallThey are open ended slots so yes you can. Bigger issue is the horrid support pcie 1x 2.0? Seriously was looking at these until that.
Maybe its my eyesight or the small photo, but that mITX PCIe doesnt look open ended at all.
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#5
TheLostSwede
News Editor
theonedubMaybe its my eyesight or the small photo, but that mITX PCIe doesnt look open ended at all.
Sadly you're right :(
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#6
IvantheDugtrio
"Pls Insert DDR3_A1 First"
They should have used Comic Sans for all of their text. :D

Looks like the AMD AM1 platform still has a few nicer features. Not sure how they compare performance-wise.
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#7
Caring1
theonedubMaybe its my eyesight or the small photo, but that mITX PCIe doesnt look open ended at all.
A hot knife will fix that.
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