J & W Technology comes to the mini-ITX table with an offering of a different color, AMD green. Forgoing the Intel® H55 chipset in favor of AMD’s powerful 890GX, J & W also raises the bar with the inclusion of SATA 3.0 with transfer rates up to 6Gbps. The only shortcoming may be the choice to use SO-DIMMs in place of traditional desktop memory. There is less selection of high-end SO-DIMMs available and they usually cost a bit more.
The specs for the AMD-powered MINIX 890GX-USB3 mini-ITX board are:
- Manufacturer: J & W Technology
- Model: MINIX 890GX-USB3
- Retail Price: N/A
- Chipset: AMD 890GX
- Southbridge: SB850
- Processor: AM3 – Phenom® II, Athlon™ II, Sempron™-100
- System Bus: N/A
- Memory: DDR3
- Memory Capacity: 2 SO-DIMMs
- Integrated Graphics: Radeon™ HD 4290, 128 MB DDR3 Sideport Memory
- Display Options: 1 D-Sub, 1 DVI-D, 1 HDMI (HDCP)
- Expansion Slots: 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16, 1 Mini PCI Express
- SATA: 3.0 6Gbps
- Ethernet: Dual Broadcom Gigabit
- WiFi: N/A
- Firewire: N/A
- USB 2.0: 4 on Rear Panel, 4 Internal Headers
- USB 3.0: 2 on Rear Panel
- Audio: 7.1 Channel HD Audio, SPDIF Out
- DirectX® Support: DirectX® 10.1
Source: J & W Technology