ASUS has rather quietly unveiled a new micro-ATX motherboard that features Intel Celeron N3150 Braswell SoC.

While it is pretty much a standard micro-ATX motherboard with two DDR3 DIMM memory slots, a single PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot and two PCI-Express x1 slots, two SATA 6Gbps ports, HDMI and D-Sub outputs, Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0 slots and onboard audio, the motherboard also comes with a quad-core Intel Celeron N3150 Braswell SoC.

This quad-core Braswell BGA socket CPU is based on Intel's Airmont CPU architecture, usually works at 1.6GHz, has 2MB of L2 cache, lacks Hyper-Threading and comes with integrated Gen 8-LP GPU with 12 Execution Units (EUs) which works at maximum GPU frequency of 640MHz.

Since it is rated at 6W TDP, the Celeron N3150 SoC does not need an active cooler but comes with a hefty heatsink.

It is definitely a nice motherboard that could be easily used for a HTPC system or a small office PC.

Unfortunately, ASUS did not unveil the precise availability date or the price, but we expect it on retail shelves soon and the price should not be to high.







Source: ASUS.com.