ASRock Forums : No ultra low-power boards? https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:22:47 +0000 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:55:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1887 <![CDATA[ASRock Forums]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ <![CDATA[No ultra low-power boards? : Part of the problem with using...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1887&PID=9649&title=no-ultra-lowpower-boards#9649 Author: parsec
Subject: 1887
Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 1:55pm

Part of the problem with using processors like the E3805 is their lack of any built in graphics/video support.

But you may have been looking in the wrong place. I might be wrong that these products are similar to what you are looking for, but here they are, regardless. Scroll down the page for the lower power consumption products:

http://www.asrock.com/ipc/index.asp
]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:55:03 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1887&PID=9649&title=no-ultra-lowpower-boards#9649 <![CDATA[No ultra low-power boards? : Intel has released some low cost,...]]> https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1887&PID=9634&title=no-ultra-lowpower-boards#9634 Author: usert566
Subject: 1887
Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 3:55am

Intel has released some low cost, very low power CPUs (e.g., E3805),  with great potential for low power applications, such as VPN servers, pfSense firewalls, etc., but ASRock doesn't seem to have any products featuring any CPU with TDP <5W. I think the stellar popularity of ultra low power devices like the Raspberry Pi should be a clue to ASRock and other manufacturers that there is a significant market for such devices. I have a C2550DI ASRock board, but I wouldn't call it low power since it idles at around 40W, which is more than some Dell Core i7 systems.

I am in the market to build a system with AES-NI instructions for OpenVPN and uses under 10W from the wall. I am surprised to see that this portion of the market is almost completely devoid of products.
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