The Battle of Bay Trail-D: GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V and ASUS J1900I-C Reviewed
by Ian Cutress on October 17, 2014 10:00 AM ESTWhen the SoC plus a motherboard retails for around $90, and Intel lists the SoC as $82, you can imagine that the box contents are going to be extremely light. These motherboards only have two SATA ports, but both do have mini-PCIe and functionality headers (COM/USB) which might throw up a surprise or two. It would have been interesting if one of them offered a motherboard with WiFi for example.
In The Box: GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V
Manual
Driver Disk
Rear IO Shield
Two SATA Cables
In The Box: ASUS J1900I-C
Manual
Driver Disk
Rear IO Shield
Two SATA Cables
Many thanks to...
We must thank the following companies for kindly providing hardware for our test beds:
Thank you to OCZ for providing us with PSUs and SSDs.
Thank you to G.Skill for providing us with memory.
Thank you to Corsair for providing us with an AX1200i PSU and a Corsair H80i CLC.
Thank you to MSI for providing us with the NVIDIA GTX 770 Lightning GPUs.
Thank you to Rosewill for providing us with PSUs and RK-9100 keyboards.
Thank you to ASRock for providing us with some IO testing kit.
Thank you to Cooler Master for providing us with Nepton 140XL CLCs.
Test Setup
| Test Setup | |
| Processor | Intel Celeron J1900 (Bay Trail-D) Quad Core, 2.0 GHz (2.4 GHz Turbo) |
| Motherboards | GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V ASUS J1900I-C |
| Cooling | Integrated Passive Coolers |
| Memory | G.Skill SO-DIMM DDR3L-1600 9-9-9 |
| Memory Settings | Stock |
| Video Drivers | Intel |
| Hard Drive | OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB |
| Case | Open Test Bed |
| Operating System | Windows 7 64-bit SP1 |
| USB 2/3 Testing | OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB |
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HiTechObsessed - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Should be a big hit with console users. That lower frame-rate for gaming should be super-cinematic then!XZerg - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
The power consumption delta is something I do not like. I rather see the idle and load instead. The idle tells me how much my "nas/htpc" system will consume while doing nothing. the load tells me what is the absolute worse it will consume. this allows me to weigh the options better on power consumption basis, not the delta as that's not what is going to matter when the system is going to be idling for prolonged periods.looncraz - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
+1In this light, one extra watt for the faster performing (barely, but true, and much more so in gaming) 25W AMD option looks to be the real winner. Cheaper, only an extra watt of power used (in the delta measure anyway), etc... But, in the real world, the AMD may idle at 16W and the intel will idle at 8W... which may matter if planning on running multiple systems and using UPS protection such as in an office/school/government environment.
jospoortvliet - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Good news is that most reviews I've seen put the AMD at a lower idle power than the Intel. The total load is closer than the difference graph makes it look, no idea why those are used...maco - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Agreed, I'd like to see idle and load graphs too. I tend to leave a computer on doing light server tasks, so idle power is an important metric for me.danzig - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Same here concerning the power graphs. If there is a revision or edit of the page, could you please put more power consumption info up, if you have the data?KWIE - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
I use mine as a NAS also, with FreeNAS/Plex. I haven't clocked it yet higher than 19W.Guspaz - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
Agreed the delta numbers are useless. A system with an idle/load power consumption of 10W/20W would show up the same in the chart as a system with an idle/load power consumption of 500/510W, as admittedly contrived as that scenario is. But something like 10/20 versus 20/30 isn't so crazy.Guspaz - Monday, October 20, 2014 - link
Also, the graph says "lower is better", but that's not true at all. Given two processors with equal load power draw, the processor with the lower idle power draw "wins" that benchmark, but that means you want the processor with the *BIGGER* delta, not the smaller delta!AJSB - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
AMD AM1 APUs based on Kabini simply CRUSH these abortions as for light gaming goes (and BTW, 1280x1024 is near 30% more pixels than of a 1366x768 monitor)....wait for AMD Beema AM1 ;)