Gigabyte Announces Quad-Core J1900-Based Motherboard
Gigabyte's new J1900-based motherboard is even more feature-rich.
Not long ago, Gigabyte announced its J1800-based motherboard. Now, it brings us the J1900N-D3V board, which carries a quad-core Celeron J1900 chip. Alongside this upgrade, the motherboard also features a number of other improved goodies.
The Celeron J1900 chip is a Bay Trail-based chip, operating four cores at a clock speed of 2.0 GHz. The integrated Intel HD graphics runs at 688 MHz, though it can boost up to 854 MHz. The TDP of all of this is just 10 W, allowing Gigabyte to have the chip passively cooled.
Internal connectivity consists of two DDR3-SODIMM slots, two SATA2 ports, a single PCI port, and a Mini-PCIe slot. Rear I/O connectivity is handled by a pair of PS/2 ports, a pair of serial COM ports, DVI, VGA, four USB 3.0 ports, stereo audio jacks, as well as dual Gigabit Ethernet. Gigabyte has also equipped the board with its DualBIOS, which is a very nice addition for a budget board.
There was no word on pricing or availability yet.

I dont know, but even being able to put an R7 250 in there or something would be nice.
I dont know, but even being able to put an R7 250 in there or something would be nice.
I'm not interested in gaming prowess from a 10W integrated CPU, I think that kind of graphic power is even overkill for what it is. It's just curiosity about an office PC replacement. I have an E2200, E6320 and a Sempron "whatever" which needs to be refreshed and they all got IDE HDD, so I have already thought of all the rest of the pieces. I just wanted to know how much better they are, inexpensive and low power consumption, my workload is really really light. Most of the softwares used are barely dual core capable and all machines running XP 32 bit. Power consumption is really important since all machines are working 100h per week.
I think this is going to fit even in the automotive market where Via had their terrible 1GHz almost single cores.
I dont know, but even being able to put an R7 250 in there or something would be nice.
I'm not interested in gaming prowess from a 10W integrated CPU, I think that kind of graphic power is even overkill for what it is. It's just curiosity about an office PC replacement. I have an E2200, E6320 and a Sempron "whatever" which needs to be refreshed and they all got IDE HDD, so I have already thought of all the rest of the pieces. I just wanted to know how much better they are, inexpensive and low power consumption, my workload is really really light. Most of the softwares used are barely dual core capable and all machines running XP 32 bit. Power consumption is really important since all machines are working 100h per week.
I think this is going to fit even in the automotive market where Via had their terrible 1GHz almost single cores.
I feel like this thing would struggle with even playing back HD video. Sure it might be fine for a cheap little office computer, but if i purchased something like this, it'd be for a media computer to connect to my TV.