If buying a ready-made nettop doesn’t appeal to you and you have the skills to build your own then your options when it comes to choosing a motherboard have been pretty limited up until now. The Intel Atom was really the one workable choice, with a variety of different types of package available around it, but now a new option is about to appear on the nettop building scene.

This is an important advance, because more and more people are turning to the putting together of their own nettop machines as a simple and cheap way to get a good quality computer with a low energy consumption and silent running.

The new motherboards which we can expect to see on the market soon are going to be built around the recently showcased AMD Fusion APU, and the first model to use this is going to be the Sapphire Pure White Fusion E350M1W, which is going to run off a 1.6 GHz dual core chip and will offer a genuine challenger to the existing boards.
It comes with 16MB Flash ROM, AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 USB 3.0 ports and VGA, HDMI, SPDOF and Bluetooth among its connectivity options. As Sapphire is best known as a graphics firm one of the big benefits to this board is bound to be a high quality graphics output; an area in which it could score heavily against the Atom based models.

The price and release date are to be announced shortly, and ultimately it may be the price which determines the success or otherwise of this product. Most people who build a nettop look to do so on a fairly limited budget, as they are often looking for an additional PC rather than their main one. This means that every expense has to be carefully weighed up.

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