Asus' New Eee Box Runs Silently Thanks to Being Fanless

Asus has announced its new Eee Box, which is fanless. It'll be known as the EB1037.

The unit comes packed with the new Bay Trial Celeron J1900 processor, as well as an Nvidia GeForce 820M graphics card. The CPU is one with 4 cores, each clocked at 2.0 GHz with a Turbo frequency of 2.42 GHz. It has a TDP of 10 W. The graphics card comes with 512 MB of memory and carries a TDP of 25 W.

All the units ship with an 802.11ac WiFi adapter, Gigabit Ethernet, and Bluetooth 4.0 support.

The unit will come in two versions: one with a 320 GB hard drive, 2 GB of RAM and no OS, which will sell for €299; and another with a 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB of RAM and Windows 8.1, which will cost €399. Through select channels they will also be available with up to 1 TB hard drives, up to 128 GB SSDs, and up to 8 GB of RAM.