AMD Fusion Mini-ITX

[Cleanthes]

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[Skilty]

Looks great! What's the fan noise like?

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.

 

[gropingmantis]

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.

 

[jrwagh333]

Also if you are fussy about your media, SandyBridge can't do true 24p

 

[Code13]

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.

 

[MTA99]

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.

 

[vanandjuanunited]

Asus E35M1-I Deluxe now starting to appear for pre order. My patience is wearing thin.

OC need to get these in

 

[Allenps]

Asus E35M1-I Deluxe now starting to appear for pre order. My patience is wearing thin.

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

 

[MTA99]

Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini in stock. Just ordered

 

[Splint]

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

 

[Orange]

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

 

[vanandjuanunited]

That's the whole point of them. Waiting for the Asus deluxe mobo to be released. Will replace my i3 setup.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems Zacate is having a refresh in Q3 2011:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18250712

 

[vanandjuanunited]

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.

 

[Deep]

I only heard about this board recently, but is there any indication at all of a release date?

 

[Allenps]

Newegg have it in stock, but won't ship to the UK

A couple of UK sites have it for pre-order, but they've had delivery expected in 1-2 days for the last fortnight!

 

[a1ex2001]

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.

 

[belnea2976]

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

 

[Allenps]

That has no bluetooth, no wifi and is not passively cooled - so depends what you are after really.

 

[Guardsmon]

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

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.