Intel is slowly pushing its newest Braswell platform, which will replace Bay Trail-D one, and MSI has launched three new ECO series motherboards based on this platform.

All three new motherboards are based on mini-ITX form-factor and differ only by the SoC used under the big passive heatsink. The top of the offer is the MSI N3700I ECO with a quad-core Pentium N3700 clocked at 2.40 GHz, followed by the MSI N3150I with Celeron quad-core SoC clocked at 2.08GHz and the MSI N3050I with dual-core Celeron SoC clocked at 2.16GHz.

All three boards have support for up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 memory in two SO-DIMM memory slot, two SATA 6Gbps ports, PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slot, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.1 and USB 2.0 ports, COM port, VGA and HDMI outputs and integrated audio. All three motherboards also come with a rather large passive heatsink which should be enough to cool the 6W Braswell SoC.

All three motherboards will also feature wide variety of multimedia solutions such as H.265 (HEVC) hardware decoding, support for 4K output, Blu-ray playback and 8-channel HD Audio via HDMI.

Considering the port layout as well as details of the motherboards, these will most likely be aimed at business, embedded and industrial use, more than consumer, but still look like decent motherboards for a standard office system.

Unfortunately, there are no details regarding the price or the availability date.



Source: MSI.com.