N3150 integrated mobos starting to show at Newegg

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157619&ignorebbr=1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157620&ignorebbr=1

Are these Cherry Trail, or Braswell?

Edit: It's Braswell, and it's a quad-core.
http://ark.intel.com/products/87258/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3150-2M-Cache-up-to-2_08-GHz

 

[cbn]

N3050 from ASRock also at Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157618

 

[cbn]

Unfortunately it appears we are going to be trading CPU speed for extra iGPU (12 to 16 Gen 8 EUs vs. 4 Gen 7 EUs) on these boards compared to Bay Trail-D (J1800, J1900, J2900)

http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/66094/Braswell#@All

http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/55844/Bay-Trail?q=bay trail#@Desktop

Braswell does have a hybrid form of H.265 decode though that involves the iGPU. Not sure how this works out in practice vs. a processor with a dedicated H.265 decode?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Unfortunately it appears we are going to be trading CPU speed for extra iGPU (12 to 16 Gen 8 EUs vs. 4 Gen 7 EUs) on these boards compared to Bay Trail-D (J1800, J1900, J2900)

Yes, it's unfortunate that the CPU part of Atom is actually getting slightly weaker.

Braswell does have a hybrid form of H.265 decode though that involves the iGPU. Not sure how this works out in practice vs. a processor with a dedicated H.265 decode?

And I was under the impression that it was a dedicated block for H.265 decode. That's also disappointing to find out it's hybrid.

Would one of these boards make a good HTPC board, with a look for H.265 content? I guess, without HDMI 2.0, and 4K support, that would be pretty worthless anyways. Maybe the Skylake NUC would be the one to get, and hold off on Braswell?

 

[waltchan]

Unfortunately it appears we are going to be trading CPU speed for extra iGPU (12 to 16 Gen 8 EUs vs. 4 Gen 7 EUs) on these boards compared to Bay Trail-D (J1800, J1900, J2900)

Celeron J1800 (not J1900) and Pentium J2900 offer the fastest single-thread speed you'll find for sub-10W integrated CPU. Stock up while you can, because we're transitioning to the notebook Celeron N series from desktop J series, plus up to 2.4 times slower base frequency speed.

Celeron N3000: 1.04 GHz
Celeron N3050: 1.60 GHz
Celeron N3150: 1.60 GHz
Celeron J1800: 2.41 GHz
Celeron J1900: 2.00 GHz
Pentium J2900: 2.41 GHZ

Celeron J1800 is a Pentium J2900, technically, but with two cores missing (or disabled). So, I would say ASRock D1800M and D1800B-ITX are the ones to pick up and store right now (I already bought 3).

 

[taisingera]

The port selection on those boards is pretty weak. I mean, it is 2015, I don't want COM, LPT ports anywhere near a motherboard.

 

[Burpo]

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