BEJING: Asus has now introduced N3150-C and N3050-C, two mini-ITX motherboards, both based on the Intel Celeron quad-core N3150 and N3050 SoCs respectively.
Using the “Braswell” silicon, both of these new SOCs embed quad-core or dual-core CPU of 64-bit x86 “Airmont” micro-architecture. The N3050 is dual-core but has no support for Intel’s Hyper Threading technology.
Meanwhile, N3150 is quad-core and again, has no support for hyper threading.
However, both feature OpenGL, Quick Sync and DirectX support. Other features offered by these boards include:
A standard PCB design;
Two full-size DDR3 DIMM ports;
A single open-ended PCI-Express 2.0 x4 expansion port;
24+4 pin power inputs;
MPCIe slot;
USB 3.0 and USB 2.0;
Two SATA 6 GB/s slots;
6-channel HD audio;
HDMI and D-Sub display outputs;
6-channel HD audio;
Two PS/2 ports;
A serial (RS-232) port.
