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It is faster than my old mobo that had a Pent. D 3GHz with 4 GB DDR2. I put in 16GB (two 8GB DDR3) sticks from an old Apple and have tried multiple OS's on different hard drives. Now I have a solid state drive to run my operating system on and it is very fast. So for the creative on a budget this board can do so much and turned into just about anything. I have a new 3TB drive for storage that I just bought from Newegg but it is failing and has to go back. But this board with a solid state to run the OS on with two or three large hard drives would make a great file sever.

Noticeably faster than the Pi 3 B. Extra header pins allow for plugging in of fans, and lights while still allowing you access to the GPIO pins. Aside from the addition of processing power, this Pi comes with several updates in its networking capabilities.

This is my 4th AsRock ITX board build. It is my 1st fan-less completely solid state build that works well for general and HTPC use even compared to my Intel Ivy Bridge i7, i5 and AMD A10 ITX (all 65 Watt TDP processors) builds. The main practical daily usage difference I see is step-wise slowing on high processor demand admin tasks like Win8.1 OS virus scans, backups and OS updates. with the J1900 being the slowest. Boot times are fast with all processor and board combos. Built in graphics all quite similar. Same for 7.1 audio. I replaced a Sony 6.1 AV receiver with the Q1900DC-ITX HTPC build and noted little difference in audio quality. For the case I used a Fan-less, Compact Morex 557 Universal Mini-ITX Case. Tiny, lots of natural ventilation and barely warm to the touch when the Q1900DC-ITX build is running. All this for approx 35-40% of the i7 ITX build. Wow.