10.07.2016

EXCLUSIVE: ASRock's Apollo Lake motherboards






The range comprises two microATX models featuring the Celeron J3355 and J3455, two mini-ITX featuring the very same SoCs, as well as a final mini-ITX model rocking the Pentium J4205. We're hearing that Apollo Lake offers some serious improvement over Braswell and that the J4205 is on par with 1st gen Core M (with HEVC 10-bit decoding on top of it).

✓ J3355M
✓ Dual-Core Celeron J3355 (up to 2.5 GHz)
✓ 2 DIMM slots (Supports DDR3/DDR3L 1866 memory)
✓ 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 (x1 mode)
✓ 2 PCIe 2.0 x1
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 / 2 x USB 2.0
✓ 2 x SATA 3
✓ D-Sub, HDMI, DVI-D

✓ J3455M
✓ Quad-Core Celeron J3455 (up to 2.3 GHz)
✓ 2 DIMM slots (Supports DDR3/DDR3L 1866 memory)
✓ 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 (x1 mode)
✓ 2 PCIe 2.0 x1
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 / 2 x USB 2.0
✓ 2 x SATA 3
✓ D-Sub, HDMI, DVI-D

✓ J3355B-ITX
✓ Dual-Core Celeron J3355 (up to 2.5 GHz)
✓ 2 SO-DIMM slots (Supports DDR3/DDR3L 1866 memory)
✓ 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 (x2 mode)
✓ 3 x USB 3.0 / 1 x USB 2.0
✓ 2 x SATA 3
✓ D-Sub, HDMI

✓ J3455-ITX
✓ Quad-Core Celeron J3455 (up to 2.3 GHz)
✓ 2 SO-DIMM slots (Supports DDR3/DDR3L 1866 memory)
✓ 1 PCIe 2.0 x1 / 1 M.2 (Key E)
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 / 2 x USB 2.0
✓ 4 x SATA 3
✓ D-Sub, HDMI, DVI-D

✓ J4205-ITX
✓ Quad-Core Pentium J4205 (up to 2.6 GHz)
✓ 2 SO-DIMM slots (Supports DDR3/DDR3L 1866 memory)
✓ 1 PCIe 2.0 x1 / 1 M.2 (Key E)
✓ 2 x USB 3.0 / 2 x USB 2.0
✓ 4 x SATA 3
✓ D-Sub, HDMI, DVI-D

Update: They are now official (J3455B-ITX added).