ASUS E45M1-M Pro AMD E-450 APU board goes on sale

Picture courtesy of Ascii.jp

Last weekend, ASUS began selling it’s latest Fusion APU board the E45M1-M Pro in Japan. This new board is paired with the AMD E-450 APU.

E-450 seems to be an upgraded variant of the AMD E-350 that we reviewed a couple of months ago.

The difference is that the E-450 has a slightly higher clock spee of 1.65GHz. It has a built in Radeon HD 6320 graphics (E-350 uses Radeon HD 6310). The graphics default clock is 508MHz instead of 492MHz. It supports DDR3-1333 whiel the older supports DDR3-1066. The TDP is 18W.

The board is a microATX board with A50M (M1 FCH). It has a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot (running in x4 mode), PCIe 2.0 x1, PCI x 2, DDR3-1333/1600(OC) slots (up to 8GB in total).

There is on board 8 Ch audio using realtek ALC887, GbE by Realtek 8111E, 5 SATA 3.0, 1 eSATA 3.0, 2 USB 3.0 (ASmedia). Output ports are HDMI/DVI-D and D-SUB.

Retail price is around ¥ 15,800.

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