Intel's Gemini Lake Refresh processors, launched in 2019, have reached end-of-life (EOL) .
Intel Bids Gemini Lake Refresh CPUs Farewell : Read more
Intel Bids Gemini Lake Refresh CPUs Farewell : Read more
Except... there were lots of Gemini Lake mini-ITX boards and virtually none to be found with Jasper Lake. When you can find them, they cost like 50% more.With Gemini Lake Refresh almost out of the picture, upcoming really low-budget devices will arrive with Jasper Lake processors as the default. It's excellent news since vendors will have no choice by to use the newer 10nm chips that will offer better performance for budget-conscious consumers.
Celeron brand is dead, but Gemini is much faster than your Apollo Lake chip, 40%+ faster. And with all the media codecs added it was quite capable. Any Celeron is a poor choice for modern gaming, classic gaming though or emulating, more than serviceable.good riddance to intel's older celeron chips since the old laptop that I used had an intel celeron n3350
These devices were perfect for small storage and network devices like pfSense or unRAID. They also made nice media boxes sipping just 6W typical.Intel's Gemini Lake Refresh processors, launched in 2019, have reached end-of-life (EOL) .
Intel Bids Gemini Lake Refresh CPUs Farewell : Read more
It's not hard to find Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake mini-PCs, but mini-ITX boards with them are quite scarce. That's based on my own survey, carried out just a couple weeks ago.And there's nothing to replace them. I mean I know Tremont exist but I haven't seen anything built on them.
ASRock Industrial has a few Alder Lake-N and Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboards.It's not hard to find Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake mini-PCs, but mini-ITX boards with them are quite scarce. That's based on my own survey, carried out just a couple weeks ago.
I'm in the market for such a board, but now I'm thinking I should sit tight see if I can find an Alder Lake-N mini-ITX board.
Thanks for the tip! I have indeed seen their website, but can't find anywhere in the USA to buy them. I will keep an eye out for them, however.ASRock Industrial has a few Alder Lake-N and Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboards.
WOAH, Alder Lake-N is crazy good performance for atom class core..has a few Alder Lake-N and Elkhart Lake mini-ITX motherboards.
When Alder Lake launched, Intel was keen to point out that Gracemont offered Skylake-level performance. Here's Anandtech's interpretation of Intel's data:WOAH, Alder Lake-N is crazy good performance for atom class core..
Beating Haswell i5, and nearly as good as a Skylake i5 all under 12 W.
So, my board arrived and I tried to boot it, last night. I used some DDR4 SO-DIMMs I had lying around, but no luck. After a brief bit of web research, it appears these boards are very picky about memory compatibility, with some users even claiming to have non-booting systems even with memory off ASRock's own QVL!After lots of deliberation, I ended up buying an ASRock J5040-ITX.