ASRock has unveiled two new small motherboards that will both be based on AMD's A4-5000 Kabini quad-core SoC, that should do well enough compared to recent Intel Braswell motherboards.

Based on mini-ITX form factor, the QC5000M-ITX/PH, and the micro-ATX form-factor, the QC5000M, both motherboards are passively cooled and pretty much have identical specifications, expect for two additional PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots on the micro-ATX QC5000M.

In case you missed it back when it was launched, AMD's A4-5000 is based on Kabini architecture with four Jaguar CPU cores and has a 15W TDP. It works at 1.5GHz and comes with Radeon HD 8330 Sea Islands GPU clocked at 497MHz and packing 128 Stream Processors. Unfortunately, Kabini only has a one single-channel memory controller with support for DDR3-1600 memory.

The rest of the specifications on these two new ASRock Kabini motherboards include two DDR3 memory slots, HDMI and D-Sub outputs, 5.1-channel integrated audio, Gigabit Ethernet and couple of USB 3.0 ports.

Unfortunately, we still do not have a precise availability date or the price.





Source: Fanlesstech.com.