14 DAY TRIAL // Miniature PCs are made of equally small hardware parts, and all those parts need to be held together by something, specifically a motherboard of the micro-ATX or mini-ITX variety.
The new mainboard that ASRock made is called Q1900TM-ITX, obviously alluding to the mini-ITX form factor.
Since it is made for small all-in-one PCs and HTPCs (home-theater personal computers), it already has its own, BGA CPU.
More specifically, it is equipped with the Celeron J1900 Bay Trail-D quad-core central processing unit, with 2 MB cache memory, 2.4 GHz base clock, 2.41 GHz max memory (Turbo Boost) and 10W max TDP.
A pair of DDR3 / DDR3L memory slots back up the CPU (up to 16 GB RAM supported), and storage/expansion is handled by SATA II (two SATA 3.0 Gbps ports), PCI Express x1, a mini PCI Express slot, USB 3.0, three USB 2.0 ports, and one LVDS connector.
Gigabit Ethernet is included too, of course (Qualcomm Atheros). Finally, for monitor support, you get D-Sub and HDMI outputs. All this for the price of €111.55 / $151.29.
The mainboard (or at least the CPU) is cooled by a single heatsink. No fans are used whatsoever, for total silence and, of course, energy efficiency.