14 DAY TRIAL // A little more than a day has passed since Intel started shipping its first Atom processor based on the Cedarview architecture and such solution have already started to make their appearance in Europe, where the D2500HND motherboard was spotted.
This is one of the simplest Intel solutions based on the Cedar Trail platform, and, as a result, it gives up on many of the features of its older brothers in order to reduce costs as much as possible.
This includes an HDMI port, so Intel customers going for the D2500HND will be forced to rely on the DVI and VGA outputs instead.
The rest of the specifications list is just as unimpressive as the video connectivity options as the board feature only two SATA 3Gbps slots and an dual-core Atom D2500 processor.
This is the slowest desktop chip based on the Cedarview Arch to be introduced by Intel as it lacks support for Hyper-Threading, has only 1MB of Level 2 cache memory and its operating speed is set at 1.86GHz.
On the plus side, the CPU has a TDP of only 10W and its graphics core has been updated from the one used in the previous generation Atom chip in roder to support HD decoding (MPEG2, VC1, AVC, and H.264) with Blu-Ray 2.0 support.
DirectX 10.1 should also be supported, but this isn't certain at this time as there have been various rumors suggesting Intel is having troubles with the implementation of this API.
According to Fudzilla, the Intel D2500HND motherboard is priced at €64 (about $87 USD), which doesn't sound to bad, but one has to keep in mind that at about the same price you could also get an AMD Brazos board.
Compared to Intel's offering this will bring you faster graphics, DirectX 11 support, HDMI and USB 3.0 connectivity and more SATA ports, so it sounds as a much better deal.