Question 1

what type case do you offer for this board?

Accepted Answer

I recommend a micro-ATX tower case, but any that is large enough to hold any ATX (not ITX) power supply will suffice.

I used the case from a computer someone threw in the trash, and added the Rosewill Capstone 450-M power supply which works well with the energy-saving features of modern chipsets such as the one in this motherboard (the Pentium J2900 uses less electricity than a light bulb).

If I was to purchase a case for this motherboard, I would consider the Apex TX-381C micro-ATX tower from Newegg.  I have been using two of these cases for years and like the fact that they are light and have a handle.

Question 2

In the specs, it says it supports 16GB of RAM, but Intel's site says the processor only supports 8GB. Does it work with 16GB?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I have it on 16GB, running like a charm.

Question 3

Would this board be good for a development build? I was looking to build a small build which I can use to develop android and web apps with.

Accepted Answer

While I started out in the industry as a programmer (3GL), I cannot speak to whether this would be adequate for android/web app development. Purchased it as a basic web browsing/email low power, decent performance desktop machine to which it has adequately fulfilled need.  When I was in software development, I always looked to get the best development platform that I could afford because time is money and if your waiting on hardware, your losing money.

Question 4

will this work with a 20 pin power supply connector?

Accepted Answer

Yes,  I have a picoPSU powering it with no issues.

Question 5

the board comes with a screw to hold in the wifi option, there is a special connector on the motherboard for it BUT can't find where newegg sells the wifi add on?????
anyone got one or know where??

Accepted Answer

It's the Mini PCI slot. You can put a Wifi card in it, but it doesn't work well. The people that sell the PCI Wifi don't tell you that you need the two antennas - which they don't sell. You have to get them from China AND the Wifi doesn't work well. You can get a mini hard drive /ssd drive for the port instead. My advice? Forget the PCI mini port altogether.

Question 6

Can any one tell me how tall the heatsink is off the board?

Accepted Answer

Hi, sorry can not open the case now, as it is in the furniture , but it not big at all, not taller that audio ports.

Question 7

Can I use a 6Gbps SSD ?

Accepted Answer

If you are asking if this motherboard supports a SATAIII SSD, the specs clearly show two SATAII(3.0Gb/s) & two SATAIII(6.0Gb/s) ports. The board works fine with the SATAIII SSD I am using with it.

Question 8

What is the idle power consumption and how does it compare to q1900?

Accepted Answer

I bought this mobo combo specifically because I bought the Acer AXC-603 J1900 and it was too slow to run a Plex server and do transcode on the fly. The J1900 also feel kind of sluggish overall for normal usage and webbrowsing is particularly slow.

I bought this mobo and put it in the case of the Acer miniITX tower, but it's PSU's cable was too short, so I also had to buy a 24pins ATX extension cable.

I have an SSD + WD 4TB Green drive installed and I get about 21W for idle and 30W for load such as gaming and boot ups. I guess without the 4TB drive, it could go as low as 15W.

It's good enough for Plex if you do direct stream most of the time. It's fast enough to manage playing Legend of Grimrock at 720p, but that's about it. I also never had overheat issues.

Question 9

Is the J2900 soldered into the motherboard?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the J2900 is permanently attached.

Question 10

What USB 3.0 chip does this have? Does the USB 3.0 support UASP? If you have any benchmarks to share, please do.

Accepted Answer

Motherboard utilizes the ASMedia ASM1074 and appears to support UASP if your OS / driver supports it. Info below from ASmedia's website....

- USB3.0 HUB Features

* Universal series Bus 3.0 Revision 1.0 Compliance
* Upstream Port support SuperSpeed, High-Speed and Full-Speed Connections
* Four Downstream Ports support SuperSpeed, High-Speed, Full-Speed and
   Low-Speed Connections
* Implement USB3.0 power management function
* SuperSpeed Link Power Management support
* USB2.0 Link Power Management support
* USB Attached SCSI Protocol Revision 1.0 Compliance
* Multiple Transaction Translator support
* Port Power Switching and Over-Current Protection per port control
* Individual and Gang mode selectable via strapping
* Remarkable with Removable or permanently attached

- General Feature

* Integrated 8-bit RISC microprocessor
* SPI flash support for customized firmware
* I2C EEPROM support for customized configuration
* Uploadable Firmware & configuration via upstream port
* Integrated 5V to 3.3V linear regulator
* Self-power and bus-power support
* Automatic power type detection and dynamic power type switch
* Support 20MHz or 25MHz or 30MHz crystal or 48MHz clock input from external
   clock generator
* IO power supply with 3.3V+/-0.3V & Core power supply 1.05V+/-0.05V

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