ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0 GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo

Pros: Low Power Consumption, Brilliant HD / Blu-Ray Video Playback, 6 SATA ports & PCIE port for added graphics horse power, UEFI BioS. Web Surfing, Hulu Streaming, work nicely on Win7 & 2GB ram. Excellent NAS / Home Media server. Idle's about 45c, HD Video Playback maxed @ 53c. Excellent.

Cons: No HDMI - so, you'll need a video card for that. As I purchased a DVI to HDMI adapter that did work, but no audio was available, so it defeated the purpose.

Overall Review: 26w Idle w/ 6 WD Green HDD's!! 26 WATTS!!! During HD Video Playback, 34w. Unfortunately I had to add my MSI HD5450 (15w TDP) video card so I could use the HDMI out for my Sony 50in LCD TV. As the adapter just couldn't cut it. I wanted full screen resolution & audio so I had no choice. Power usage was still impressive with 42w Idle & 49w during play back. Still acceptable, I may splurge for the HDMI version at a later date so I can save that 15 watts by removing the HD5450. I was loving knowing I had a full server running on less power than a 40w light bulb! Teamed with the infamous Lian Li PC-Q08 Mini ITX case this build is perfect! Excellent!!

Pros: Just set up my third one of these boards running FreeNAS. See my prior reviews. Just confirming that under FreeNas this board will do 16G of RAM instead of 8 max as specs say. This time I used: Kingston HyperX 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C10D3B1K2/16G.

Cons: Not as nice as the ASUS E35M1-I - that is not available anymore but was faster.

Overall Review: Put some airflow over the CPU heatsink. Intel NIC works in the one slot.

Pros: AMD Fusion supports 8 GB of RAM - All Intel Atom boards support only 4 GB of RAM, which made them useless to me. Runs cool, fits great in an Element Q case. Ran FreeNAS out of the box with no problems. Plenty fast for my needs.

Cons: On-board NIC (Realtek 8111F) is not well-supported in Linux or BSD. I'm not even sure if FreeBSD drivers exist for it. Using any Realtek NIC for a NAS is a bit crazy, however. I used the PCI-e slot to install a $20 Intel NIC, which has rock-solid BSD support with faster throughput and less CPU usage.

Overall Review: I wanted a mini-ITX board that supported 8 GB of RAM (for ZFS) and was passively cooled. This fit the bill perfectly, and is running great with FreeNAS 8.0.4.

Pros: Has 6 sata ports, integrated cpu/gpu and passivly cooled - cant get much better than that.

Cons: CPU does not meet requirements for WHS 2011 just fyi - look at other comments for solution. FreeNAS does not recognize the onboard NIC card (at least not in version 8.03) so a external card is required if you plan on using FreeNAS

Overall Review: To get around the WHS 2011 requirements, you can overclock the processor to 1.3ghz, install the os, and then downclock it back to original. Just make sure you have enough cooling to do this.

Pros: Everything I wanted to make a low-power NAS box: very low power requirements, out-of-the-box BSD supported hardware, fanless motherboard, lots of on-board SATA ports. 64-bit and supports 8Gb of RAM for large ZFS storage pools. Very reasonably priced. Running FreeNAS 8.04 for about a week with no hitches so far. Installed the hardware, loaded FreeNAS onto a thumb drive, booted to it, and BAM! instant NAS with no hardware fiddling. (Note I have not used the on-board NIC.)

Cons: It seems like the on-board NIC is poorly supported under BSD. I bought an Intel NIC reflexively, since I wanted a fast and reliable connection my NAS, but it would be nice if the on-board solution was well-supported.

Overall Review: Basically just what the doctor ordered for my purposes!

Pros: Small Passively Cooled Very Efficient Plenty of SATA connections

Cons: The CPU is the bottleneck on the system running FREENAS. I may end up upgrading the CPU if possible.

Overall Review: Great board, but I'm currently pegging 40 mbs tops for a transfer connection.

Pros: 100% supported in the stable release of FreeNAS out of the box. Works flawlessly as a nas. Very little power consumption but just enough with ZFS to be able to max out the 1000baseTX adapter, at least for a single user. This would not have enough CPU with software based RAID for high speed multiuser NAS.

Cons: Not any yet and that's odd for me.

Overall Review: I'm normally not an AMD fan but no Atom I found had 6xSATA ports and a PCI-e x4 (2.0) slot. I know it looks like a x16 slot but it's only pinned for x4. Good enough for a 8xSATA RAID controller. My specs: This mainboard. :-P 350w 80+ gold Rosewill PSU 5x3Tb Seagate's 2x2Gb DDR3 10600 Lian Li PC-Q25B case. <--- Bad-axe NAS case!

Pros: This is, in my opinion, the cheapest CPU/GPU combination out there that makes sense. As far as I know, this is also the only desktop motherboard that uses the Fusion C-60 APU. Hardware-wise, this board seems to be well built. It survived significant abuse from me trying to fit it into my tiny VESA case. Also, the heatsink is fanless and thus is completely silent. The BIOS allows advanced features such as overclocking, which is a nice added touch.

Cons: I'm a little concerned about the heatsink, which is somewhat anemic compared to the E45M1-I Deluxe's. The BIOS was reporting temperatures of 40-60 degrees Celsius, which I'm somewhat concerned about. Still, as the C-60 is meant for laptops as well, it's probably designed to handle higher temperatures such as this. Also, this doesn't have built-in WLAN, like the E45M1-I Deluxe does. This may or may not be a con, depending on what you plan on using this board for.

Overall Review: I'm not using any fans to cool this, so that could account for the high temperatures that were observed. Also, it would be nice if ASUS would release some new motherboards using the E2-1800 and E1-1200.