Apollo Lake Lands On An Asus Motherboard

[IInuyasha74]

Asus announced its J3455M-E motherboard, which is its first to feature an Apollo Lake SoC. Apollo Lake is the successor to Intel’s Cherry Trail and Braswell SoCs.

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[TechyInAZ]

Oh good...I'm soo glad they added a pcie express slot for gaming. 😛

 

[weilin]

Wouldn't make a bad DIY NAS or router actually; the x1 PCIe slots can be used for ethernet adapters and the x16 slot would be useful for a RAID controller. PCIe 16x isn't just for graphics ya know...

 

[Decends]

Oh good...I'm soo glad they added a pcie express slot for gaming. 😛

Toss on a RX 460 and you got a decent little PC for portability and use at a LAN Party. 😀

 

[CRITICALThinker]

That printer port tho.

 

[jaber2]

Oh good...I'm soo glad they added a pcie express slot for gaming. 😛

Toss on a RX 460 and you got a decent little PC for portability and use at a LAN Party. 😀

Too bad no SLI support, right?

 

[Decends]

Oh good...I'm soo glad they added a pcie express slot for gaming. 😛

Toss on a RX 460 and you got a decent little PC for portability and use at a LAN Party. 😀

Too bad no SLI support, right?

i assume this is sarcasm lol.

 

[thundervore]

That printer port LMAO!!

 

[bit_user]

Toss on a RX 460 and you got a decent little PC for portability and use at a LAN Party. 😀

No, because the x16 slot isn't really x16. The SoC only has 6 lanes of PCIe 2.0, according to http://ark.intel.com/products/95594/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J3455-2M-Cache-up-to-2_3-GHz

So, the slot can't be more than x4 PCIe 2.0. Basically, gaming laptops will run circles around it.

 

[Decends]

Toss on a RX 460 and you got a decent little PC for portability and use at a LAN Party. 😀

No, because the x16 slot isn't really x16. The SoC only has 6 lanes of PCIe 2.0, according to http://ark.intel.com/products/95594/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J3455-2M-Cache-up-to-2_3-GHz

So, the slot can't be more than x4 PCIe 2.0. Basically, gaming laptops will run circles around it.

Yea, but chances are a gaming laptop would probably cost a lot more than this with a RX 460. Besides, i doubt the RX 460 is anywhere near fast enough for a PCIe 2.0 X4 slot to bottleneck it., hell a slot running in x2 probably would still have more than enough bandwidth for it. Also, i said decent little PC, not fantastic little PC. Of course there will be better options, but they will likely cost more to.

 

[Zapin]

If it has HDMI 2.0a then it might make a nice little HTPC otherwise this just a NAS motherboard imo

 

[Decends]

I TOLD INTEL 34 YEARS AGO YOU NEED TO STACK THE WAFERS ONTOP OF EACHOTHER I EVEN DID IT
MYSELF TO PROVE IT HEAR WE ARE 34 YEARS LATER DUUUUUUUUU AND NOW THEY START
34 YEARS AGO I TOLD WESTERN DIGITAL THAT THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OF LIGHT
COULD BE RECORDED ON MEDIA (ACTUALY EACH WAVELENGTH IS A CHANNEL) HEAR WE ARE
DOWN THE ROAD AND WE GOT MAYBE TWO CHANNELS RED AND VIOLET
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
PEOPLE JUST DONT LISTEN TO ME EVEN WHEN I PROVE IM RIGHT

EITHER ITS TO LATE AT NIGHT OR NOBODY CANT MATCH BRAINS WITH ME

*Points to don't feed the troll sign*

 

[artk2219]

I still dont understand why they ship these motherboards with PCIE x1 slots that are closed in the back. If they bought the slots that were open then you would be able to slot an x4, x8, or x16 card in the x1 slot. Sure you wouldn't get the full bandwidth, but for lots of things they dont need more than an x1 slots worth of bandwidth. Oh well.

 

[bit_user]

I TOLD INTEL 34 YEARS AGO YOU NEED TO STACK THE WAFERS ONTOP OF EACHOTHER I EVEN DID IT
MYSELF TO PROVE IT HEAR WE ARE 34 YEARS LATER DUUUUUUUUU AND NOW THEY START
34 YEARS AGO I TOLD WESTERN DIGITAL THAT THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OF LIGHT
COULD BE RECORDED ON MEDIA (ACTUALY EACH WAVELENGTH IS A CHANNEL) HEAR WE ARE
DOWN THE ROAD AND WE GOT MAYBE TWO CHANNELS RED AND VIOLET
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
PEOPLE JUST DONT LISTEN TO ME EVEN WHEN I PROVE IM RIGHT

Okay, I'll bite. I had many ideas, when I was young. As a practicing engineer, I can tell you that simply having an idea vs. actually being able to implement it in a reliable, cost-effective, and scalable manner are worlds apart. It might also be that chip-stacking and multi-spectral... whatever... simply weren't the most cost-effective ways to increase density, at the time (not to mention risk).

Put another way: Ideas are cheap. Implementation is hard. An idea is just the first step on the journey. The good news is that if you have a really good idea, there's a chance you can be one of the first to actually do it.


BTW, if you want chat buddies, try IRC. Or reddit. Or, maybe there are some usenet/google groups with a lot of traffic.