As part of my "buy random stuff on ebay to benchmark for STH" campaign I recently cam across the Intel Atom E3815. It seems to be a single core Slivermont at 1.46GHz and a single DDR3 memory channel. It also seems to be a 5w SoC so certainly interesting from a power perspective. The board also comes with a 4GB eMMC module onboard (see here)so I am guessing you can just add a DDR3L stick and be running.
OEM XS has these on sale for $105 and best offer $79: Intel DE3815TYBE BLKDE3815TYBE NUC Board DDR3L USB3 USB2 HDMI VGA Board Only | eBay which is way better than the next at $125.
antonline has the kit with a chassis and power brick for $145 Intel Thin Canyon NUC Kit DE3815TYKHE BLKDE3815TYKH0E 1 | eBay
My big question is whether anyone has tried this platform before. It seems either like a great low power Intel platform or like it will be a total dud. The ECS Liva 32GB/2GB has the case, 2GB of RAM, more eMMC and Wifi/BT for $119 which seems better with 2 cores and 10% higher clock speeds.
Any thoughts on the Atom E3815?
OEM XS has these on sale for $105 and best offer $79: Intel DE3815TYBE BLKDE3815TYBE NUC Board DDR3L USB3 USB2 HDMI VGA Board Only | eBay which is way better than the next at $125.
antonline has the kit with a chassis and power brick for $145 Intel Thin Canyon NUC Kit DE3815TYKHE BLKDE3815TYKH0E 1 | eBay
My big question is whether anyone has tried this platform before. It seems either like a great low power Intel platform or like it will be a total dud. The ECS Liva 32GB/2GB has the case, 2GB of RAM, more eMMC and Wifi/BT for $119 which seems better with 2 cores and 10% higher clock speeds.
Any thoughts on the Atom E3815?