AMD Fusion Mini-ITX
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It is a neat little system it has to be said, AMD are really onto a winner with this.
Flex PSU isn't the quiestest to be honest, louder than my 450w Corsair in the media server so will be switching over to a 150w Pico when I can.
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After seeing the pricing on these boards I'm really torn between one of these and getting an i3-2100T for my media server. I don't think the extra computing power of the i3 will be necessary and 18W definitely beats 35W in terms of keeping the electricity bill down.
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I'm definitely keeping an eye on these fusion boards. I'm glad AMD have finally got around to mixing their CPUs and ATI's GPUs. Though Intel did beat them to the punch a bit.
My friend is looking into a lower end desktop (nothing too fancy), and these sound like a good and effective alternatives to the Atom boards I was looking at. I also like the SATA and USB 3. OCUK are doing a reasonable price.
My friend is looking into a lower end desktop (nothing too fancy), and these sound like a good and effective alternatives to the Atom boards I was looking at. I also like the SATA and USB 3. OCUK are doing a reasonable price.
A large competitor to OCUK is showing the Gigabyte board available on 4th March (£131inc). A smaller ITX specialist site has stock available now (£140inc). Hopefully we'll see decent availability in March.
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Asus E35M1-I Deluxe now starting to appear for pre order. My patience is wearing thin.
OC need to get these in
OC need to get these in
Not bad at £147 when you think this includes wi-fi and bluetooth built in. Perfect for my CarPC upgrade. OCUK could be missing a trick here if they don't post up soon
Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini in stock. Just ordered 
Can anyone who has one of these boards confirm the power usage at idle? One review mentioned 30w idle and 42w load, I was hoping it would be lower, however the PSU being used was overkill. Currently I'm running a Zotac 9300 ITX, E5200 (1.2-2.5ghz) and a 2TB F3 with idle of 35w and 1080p playback through xbmc showing as 45w...Not sure if it worth upgrading as such just to have a new toy 
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I was thinking of building an htpc till i came across these.
Does anyone know how well these would do for a simple htpc that plays bluray's, youtube etc on an hd telly?
I was going to order an I3 2100 for one, but intrested in one of these
Does anyone know how well these would do for a simple htpc that plays bluray's, youtube etc on an hd telly?
I was going to order an I3 2100 for one, but intrested in one of these
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That's the whole point of them. Waiting for the Asus deluxe mobo to be released. Will replace my i3 setup.
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It seems Zacate is having a refresh in Q3 2011:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18250712
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18250712
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I just want the deluxe version..now
Getting fed up with the wait. Much longer and I would be better waiting for the refresh however the tdp of 18w is appealing.
Getting fed up with the wait. Much longer and I would be better waiting for the refresh however the tdp of 18w is appealing.
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I'm waiting for the Acer Revo (or similar) to be updated with Fusion, I need another HTPC and one of these would be bang on.
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This motherboard better than the Asus E35M1-I Deluxe?
ASROCK E350
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1/USB3
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1
ASROCK E350
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1/USB3
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=E350M1
In what possible way is it better? As above - no bluetooth, wifi, not passively cooled, less SATA connections and no front mounted USB3 port.
Only thing going for it I can see over the Asus E35M1-I Deluxe is the price.