MSI E350IA-E45 AMD E-350 APU, dual core Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

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Pretty a lot excellent for a HTPC application. The complete board is low-profile so I was able to squeeze it into a really tight case without having too much difficulty. It recognized my 1333 Corsair memory proper away. The price tag is much less than for a lot of Atom/Ion combinations and you get significantly much more energy. I'm not positive you can call it a con, but because the AMD fusion processors are so new I'm nonetheless waiting on linux help to catch up. Otherwise a extremely good item for the price tag. Haven't bothered installing Windows but. Managed to get Ubuntu 11.04 Beta up and operating a lot a lot more smoothly than I had planned. Haven't been capable to get 1080p output with the open source drivers but I have no doubt that will be coming soon. Also this is not as considerably of a concern for me given that I only have a 720p Tv :).The E-350 reserves 500MB of memory for GPU purposes, so you must be aware that your OS might not report your complete memory as obtainable (took me a even though to figure this out, couldn't figure out why it was reporting only three.5GB of Ram when I had a four.0GB stick installed).Lastly, I have seen some folks claiming that the board was noisy and/or running hot in their systems. I haven't hardly noticed the noise at all from the CPU cooler. If you're searching for one thing Fully silent (i.e. no moving parts) perhaps you must go with a fanless board. As far as the temperature, I read standby temps of about 42-45 degrees with temps reaching 62 degrees below complete loa

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Low energy, excellent graphics, cool, quiet Battery positioning and type stink Meet The New Kid In Town:MSI has noticed the prospective in the new AMD Fusion CPU. The MSI E350IA-E45 is a function rich micro ITX board with the prospective to be the heart of your subsequent HTPC with it’s outstanding integrated graphics; an productive property server with its 4x SATAIII ports, or even an adequate each day driver with DDR3 support and low heat output.

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Great little board, for my HTPC. Handles streaming from the web effortlessly with no stuttering. Place it in a Hec ITX ITX200B Mini case with a 4gb module of Kingston memory from the QVL list. The machine is fairly responsive for other tasks as properly although no screamer. Weird startup. This may possibly be partly due to my existing boot configuration but the screen is blank apart from a couple of numbers in the proper hand corner for about 30 seconds before the MSI logo appears. When I initially began it thought it wasn't posting.The CPU fan on my board in this case is loud (as is the a single in the case as well). Substantially additional noisy than I was expecting and the CPU temp shows as 60+C even though the heatsink is relatively cool to touch. Have tried cool and quiet and so on. but nevertheless very loud. If any person has a great repair, let me know. A excellent item for an HPTC spoiled by the noise. I only turn it on when I will use it mainly because of this and then rely on the Tv to drown out the background noise. Nearly dropped it to 3 mainly because of this.

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Appears to have very good build qualityGreat level of connection alternatives and USB 3 DOAAttempted with 3 separate, operating, power supplies and "nada" Close inspection showed fingerprints and some type of grease/residue on the base of the motherboard... I constantly handle my MBs and circuitry from the edges and keep away from make contact with points to keep away from possible damage. Not only does ESD pose a danger to MBs, but the acid in fingerprints can trigger corrosion over time. It would seem a person on the QC or MFG line decided to give this board a "viewing" proper immediately after their lunch. Had this been an older board, I would have believed it was a re-manufactured board. This is my first MSI board, so perhaps this was a pure fluke.Awaiting RMA replacement.NOTE: Anybody else locate locating a mfg's authorized/tested memory listing a bit confusing and complicated? It would be a blessing for someone to truly post the link directly under their help web site for each MB. After 20 mins of looking, I had finally located the listing for this board so I can get the tested Kingston memory.

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This board makes a excellent addition to my property network. I am using it for HTPC, but I think it could be used for whatever you want. The only con I noticed is that there is no technique speaker. My MakeMSI E350IA-E45 MoboGeIL 4GB DDR3 1066OCZ Agility 60gb SSDhec Black ITX200A Mini ITX Media Center / HTPC CaseWindows 7 Ultimate x64WEIProcessor-3.eightMemory-5.eightGraphics-four.Gaming Graphics-5.7Tough Disk-7.

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I'm blown away. 1080p video on this? Wow. It's 20% slower at extracting winrar but who cares for a torrent box that uses 25 watts of power. In power savings this machine was free compared to the one it replaced.

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Built a budget HTPC with this board and 4GB DDR3. OS - Win7 Ultimate. Not the fastest thing I've ever used but it gets the job done for sure. Reminds me of using one of those small Lenovo PCs that university libraries always have, but noticeably faster thankfully.I've only tried running 720p video through it (older HDTV + nicer file size) and it holds up well. Sits about 50-60% CPU usage while playing. As someone else noted, VLC seems to chug video but MPC runs perfectly. I would recommend this or a similar board for a budget HTPC.

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-- Low energy - ~ 25watts w/o HDD under regular load-- Runs Windows Media Center 7 perfectly-- VGA >> Component dongle >> Tv functions for me with out resorting to PowerStrip 鼐p). I have a Sony LCD, Sony DLP, Sony Rear projection CRT and Sharp Aquos LCD and it amazingly just worked with no tweaking. -- Runs somewhat hot under standard load (~ 50°C - 60°C) in a 4U rackmount case [i.e. plenty of air flow] I haven't noticed the fan noise other reviewers have mentioned. Possibly I have a newer batch / production run?

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great MB for a normal use computer (email, internet. etc..) but i would not recommend for a media pc.

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--Very integrated design consists of flexible audio selections: HDMI, S/PDIF optical and coaxial, and analog.--Wow, 6Mbps SATA and USB 3. on an inexpensive and tiny board!--Considerably superior graphics performance than an Atom/Ion board, and graphics are more quickly than the Intel GMA4500HD board it replaced.--Very low power consumption: 15-18W running, and practically zero in standby (EuP 2013 standby compliant).--HD Video runs smoothly under Win 7 x64 with WMC and ATSC OTA HDTV, or with Netflix/Silverlight or Flash internet videos.--Board recognizes Samsung DDR3 1333 DRAM via SPD, no tweaking needed to set speed.--No problems with Windows 7 x64, even reliably suspends and resumes. --One egg off: CPU speed is noticeably slow, and the overall bottleneck. But, more quickly than an Atom (AMD E-350 WEIɥ.8 vs. three.three for an Atom D510).--I wish it had a rear-panel eSATA port, in location of one of the a lot of USB ports. I applied 1 of the 4 internal SATA connectors, with my case's front-panel eSATA socket, rather.--Too bad the BIOS doesn't consist of/allow overclocking the CPU. Considering how cool it runs at default speed, cranking it up a bit would seem to be harmless. --This system replaces a bug-ridden Intel DG45ID / Core two Duo micro-ATX machine I previously utilized for a HTPC. This board has a significantly slower CPU, but in fact more quickly graphics, and considerably lower power consumption.--MSI driver "live update" doesn't appear to perform properly to show at present-installed drivers vs. available ones. I updated the video subsystem drivers from AMD/ATI's key download web site.My program:--This MSI E350IA-E45 mini-ITX board--1 stick of Samsung 4GB DDR3 1333 RAM ࿈nm technologies, incredibly low power)--WD AV-25 500GB 32MB cache 5400RPM HD--Samsung slim CD/DVD Burner SN-S083F/BEBE--Antec ISK-300-65 Mini-ITX case--Microsoft Bluetooth dongle, keyboard and mouse--Windows 7 HP 64-bit--3 external HDTV tuners: 1 AverTVHD Volar MAX USB and one dual-tuner Silicondust HDHomerun via ethernet.Windows Knowledge Index:CPU: three.8RAM: five.8Graphics: 4.five / five.8Disk: five.6

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I bought this to use as a small computer to do my basic school work. It does that job and does it well. With 8 gigs of ram everything feels zippy, although not overly fast.Capable of playing 1080p video. Some video skipped in VLC media player, this was remedied by replacing it with Media Player Classic Home Cinema.Uses very low wattage and runs cool inside my case, doesn't require an over-the-top power supply.Expect to do zero gaming with this, but if you do you can maybe get ~20fps in World of Warcraft or other games from that era. I don't list this as a con as this motherboard wasn't built for gaming. There is no point of adding a video card as the PCI-e (x4) slot and CPU would be a major bottleneck.Overall I am very satisfied with this motherboard. Personally I will buy something more upgradable next time, but for anyone looking to build a cheap(HT)PC for playing hi-def movies and basic web-surfing this is a good buy. This review was modfied by poster @ 09-30-11 08:55 AM

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Supports DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD pass-thru and 8 channel PCM more than HDMI, low power, works nicely with Boxee/XBMC, hardware accelerated H.264 thru DXVA fan is a bit noisy for a living room (� RPM with default setting), though i don't actually hear it when i play a movie. My configuration:Difficult drive: Kingston SSDNow V100 64G (SSD)Case: Cooler Master CM Media 260 / 450 WMemory: Kingston KVR1066D3N7K2ǚG ƒ x 2GB) DDR3 1066OS: Windows 7 Skilled ࿀ bit)Windows Knowledge Index: Processor : 3.7 Memory : five.5 Graphics : four.1 Gaming graphics : 5.7 Tough disk : 6.9The APU/CPU can get up to 70C below load (can manage up to 90C according to the spec), with just Boxee operating it keeps about 38C ࿓C each and every core) i also reduced fan speed to 5300 RPM in BIOS to make it much less noisy. Overall system is very stable, sleep/wake up works quite well and it wake up thru Boxee remote, extremely convinient. Superior replacement for Nvidia ION/Atom platform.I would give it five begins if not the annoying high RPM fan.

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I got this for a straightforward HTPC build to run XBMC live. Properly as it turns out, XBMC live wouldn't function, it looked like a slide show even on the key menus. It was so unusable (even installed on an SSD) that I had to scrap that install. Then I tried installing ubuntu with XBMC operating on best and I had a ton of troubles with that. It worked, but I couldn't get the open source video acceleration drivers working properly so HD video was quite choppy. The linux support is just not there yet on this platform.Next in my adventure, I installed XP and tried to run XBMC in Windows. XP was very snappy but the directX video acceleration support nonetheless wasn't there. My 1080p videos put the CPU at 100% load and the FPS was extremely bad. Nonetheless no great.Lastly I installed Windows 7 Pro and issues went Considerably smoother. I got video acceleration working simply, there had been no complications installing the drivers for this board, and windows is really snappy. My CPU load is about 15-20% when I'm streaming 1080p movi The cons are type of just the built in assumption that this board is not superman and can't do everything. If you know what it's good for it's wonderful, but this is no i7 rig. It's marginally much more effective than my single-core atom netbook. I highly recommend an SSD if you're going to install an RTOS. My HTPC rig is:MSI E350IA-45Antek ISK 300-65 (with built in 65W Pico ATX PSUƜGB low-cost RAM32GB Corsair SSDThat's it!The whole setup cost about ~跾-400 and it's very great, with the caveat that I had to install Windows 7. The challenge is that this board relies too heavily on the GPU offloading so the software support requirements to be there or you'll be taxing the CPU for graphics intensive work. Overall I'm extremely impressed with this board and I recommend it for a HTPC or tiny desktop PC.

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- Good cost- Good form-factor for an all-purpose desktop construct- Good construct quality and documentationI typically obtain Asus boards for their support of ECC RAM given that I run my machines 24-7 doing computational function. For desktops I will absolutely take into account MSI boards in the future right after having such a great encounter with this 1. - The fan comes configured in the BIOS at full blast, this is not the most quiet fan. I remedied this by changing the bios settings to manage the fan speed, set-point of 55C, minimum fan speed of 12.five%, which quiets the fan down substantially. I used an Antec ISK case and set the case fan at the lowest setting, now the desktop is quiet except at high load, but certainly not a deal breaker.I strongly suggest this board.

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far better than my dual core Atom/ion config xxx

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With this and cheap case and 8 GB of DDR3- for under $400 built a HTPC with amazing performance compared to anything I have had in the past.