Dec 30, 2010 09:40 GMT  ·  By

Lately, a wide series of Zacate and Ontario based products have started making their appearance online, ASRock being the latest company to introduce such a solution, the E350M1 AMD Brazos-powered motherboard that is destined to be used in low-cost computers.

Although the official announcement has just come, the board has already been previewed on the Vietnamese online9999 tech forum, a handful of benchmarks being also included.

As its name implies, the E350M1 is powered by an AMD E-350 APU that bundles together two Bobcat cores with a Radeon HD 6310 GPU to form an 18W TDP chip.

The cores are clocked at 1.6GHz while the integrated graphics is run at 500MHz, this being made up of 80 GPU cores.

In addition, the HD 6310 also features the UVD3 engine, that AMD introduced in the Radeon HD 6800 series, making the graphics capable of handling 1080p content in various formats while also adding Adobe Flash acceleration to the mix.

In the E350M1, the E-350 APU is paired together with the Hudson M1 chipset that features four SATA 6Gbps ports, a x16 PCI Express slot with four PCIe lanes, and a pair of DDR3 DIMMs.

Furthermore, the board uses an assortment of regular and solid capacitors (in order to keep the price down), the chipset being equipped with a passive cooler while AMD's APU is chilled by a small fan cooled heatsink.

Moving to the back of the board, we find a PS/2 port, two USB 3.0 ports based on an Etron host controller, four USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA port, D-sub, DVI and HDMI ports as well as 7.1-channel audio with optical S/PDIF out.

Power is delivered via a 24-pin ATX power connector which should make this well suited for low-power applications.

Sadly, details regarding price and availability have not been disclosed by ASRock so far. (via SemiAccurate)

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