14 DAY TRIAL // About a month or so ago, before the official launch of AMD's first generation of Fusion chips, we brought you the very first pictures of a Brazos-powered Soyo motherboard, and now, it seems like the company wishes to expand its product portfolio as yet another Zacate mainboard made its appearance online.
Just as before, the board is powered by an integrated dual-core Zacate E-350 APU and features the same Soyo trademark design as its predecessor.
However, this time, the board is entirely passively cooled thanks to a blue heatsink that covers the Fusion APU as well as the Hudson chipset.
Speaking of the accelerated processing unit, the E-350 is the fastest chip in AMD's arsenal and comes clocked at 1.6GHz while the on-die Radeon HD 6310 GPU runs at 500MHz.
As its the case with all Zacate and Ontario APUs, the E-350 is also paired together with AMD’s UVD3 video decoding engine, which should, in theory, offer similar media playback features to the Radeon HD 6000 series, including 1080p video playback.
In addition, the Soyo board gets a full length PCI Express x16 slot (that should run at x4), a PCIe x1 and a regular PCI slot, two regular sized DIMM slots and six SATA ports, four of them supporting 6Gbps transfer speeds.
Turning the mainboard, reveals the VGA, DVI and HDMI video outputs, four USB 2.0 ports, an Ethernet port, a PS/2 port and three audio jacks.
Judging from the temperature measurements delivered by the Expreview website, the Zacate E-350 confirms AMD's previous claims regarding their platform thermal performances, as the board reached a maximum of 41.4 degrees Celsius under load.
No details regarding pricing or availability were released at this time, but this board sure looks like a nice low-end option for those that can't afford an Asus E35M1-M Pro motherboard.