Low-Power War: AM1 vs Bay Trail

[Dirk Broer]

AnandTech's Ian Cutress has analysed nine AM1 boards and discusses pro's and con's.

Thomas Soderstrom of Tom's Hardware did the same with a selection of three motherboards.

Based upon specs only my own choice is the Asrock AM1B-M for μATX format and the ASUS AM1I-A for the iTX format.
I like the three fan headers and the four USB 2.0 headers on the Asrock board and my only misgiving is the sole PS/2 port (I use a PS/2 based KVM switch). The ASUS board wins for me thanks to its two PS/2 ports and the four USB headers. And the ASUS board -over here- is just as expensive as any other given AM1 board save the Asrock AM1H-iTX.
Expensive is a bit of a misnomer here: almost any 2nd hand AM3+, FM2 or Socket 1155 mobo is bound to be twice as expensive as a new AM1 mobo!