ASUS has officially announced the first ever motherboard that will support Intel’s Apollo Lake platform. According to the company, the motherboard features the mATX form factor and houses the mid-ranged Celeron processor.
The Celeron J3455 Is the Apollo Lake Wonder Present Inside the Latest Motherboard – Substantial Performance Improvements Over Braswell Expected
Intel launched a total of 6 Apollo Lake chipsets, out of which three SKUs were for desktops while the rest was for future notebooks, tablets and 2-in-1s. The ASUS J3455M-E will naturally provide support for the Celeron J3455 SoC, which features a quad-core package running at a base clock speed of 1.5GHz, while the turbo clock speed takes the processor up to 2.30GHz. It features a TDP of 10 watts and provides support up for up to 8GB of RAM.
Processor
- Intel Celeron Quad-Core J3455 SoC onboard Processors
Memory
- 2 x U-DIMM, Max. 16GB, DDR3 1866/1600/1333 MHz Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory
Graphics
- Integrated Graphics Processor
PCIe slots
- 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x1 mode)
- 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
Storage
- 2 x SATA 6Gb/s port
LAN
- Realtek RTL8111H, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller
Audio
- Realtek ALC887-VD2 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
Rear I/O panel
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard (purple)
- 1 x PS/2 mouse (green)
- 1 x D-Sub
- 1 x HDMI
- 1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s)
- 2 x USB 3.0 (blue)
- 2 x USB 2.0
- 1 x Parallel port(s)
- 3 x Audio jack(s)
Internal I/O ports
- 1 x USB 3.0 connector(s) support(s) additional 2 USB 3.0 port(s)
- 1 x USB 2.0 connector(s) support(s) additional 2 USB 2.0 port(s)
- 1 x COM port(s) connector(s)
- 2 x SATA 6Gb/s connector(s)
- 1 x CPU Fan connector(s) (1 x 4 -pin)
- 1 x Chassis Fan connector(s) (1 x 4 -pin)
- 1 x 24-pin EATX Power connector(s)
- 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector(s)
- 1 x Front panel audio connector(s) (AAFP)
- 1 x Internal speaker connector(s)
- 1 x System panel(s)
Source: wccf Tech
