Low-Power War, round 2: AM1 vs. Cherry Trail

[Dirk Broer]

As Asrock had their best AM1 and J2900 boards as iTX, I like to show these compared to their new N3700 iTX board. Note that Asrock seems to have circumvented the supposed 8GB memory limit that the J2900 and N3700 have, according to Intel themselves.

	AM1H-ITX	Q2900-ITX	N3700-ITX
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RAM	2x Single Channel DDR3 DIMM 1066/1333/1600 Max: 32GB*	2x Dual Channel DDR3/DDR3L SO-DIMM 1066/1333 Max: 16GB	2x Dual Channel DDR3/DDR3L SO-DIMM 1066/1333/1600 Max: 16GB
PS/2 Ports	1 combo	2	1 combo
USB 2.0 ext.	2	2	2
USB 3.0 ext.	2	2	4
USB 2.0 int.	4	2	4
USB 3.0 int.	2	2	2
Storage	4x SATA 6Gb/s 1x Mini PCI-e	2x SATA 6Gb/s 2x SATA 3Gb/s 1x Mini PCI-e	4x SATA 6Gb/s 1x Mini PCI-e
Audio	ALC892	ALC892	ALC892
LPT Port	No	No	No
COM Port	Yes (header)	Yes (header)	Yes (header)
Expansion / Connectivity	1x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) 1x Mini PCI-e	1x PCIe 2.0 x1 1x Mini PCI-e	1x PCIe 2.0 x1 1x Mini PCI-e
dSub (VGA)	Yes	Yes	No
DVI-D	Yes	Yes	Yes
HDMI	Yes	Yes	Yes
Display Port	Yes (1.2)	No	Yes (1.1a)
Fan Ports	1x4pin CPU 1x4pin Chassis 1x3pin Power	1x3pin CPU 1x3pin Chassis	1x3pin CPU 1x3pin Chassis
LAN	RTL8111GR 10/100/1000 Mb/s	RTL8111GR 10/100/1000 Mb/s	RTL8111GR 10/100/1000 Mb/s
Overclockable?	No	No	No
WiFi?	Optional (separate bracket included)	No	Optional (separate bracket included)
19V DC in option?	Yes	No	No

*=Yet-to-be 16 GB modules required...