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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Flunk - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Yes, but that's like comparing a man with two broken legs to a man with no legs. Yes, the man with the broken legs is faster, but neither is going to be competing in any footraces anytime soon. These are not really suitable for PC gaming.Slap the two of them into tablets and the AMD will run Candy Crush better, but this is the desktop and neither can really manage anything on that level.
AJSB - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
I said *LIGHT* gaming....i also specified a certain resolution up to 1366x768 (forget about 1920x1080).It all depends the kind of titles it plays....many indies will play just fine...and so it will MANY of the "old" titles like CoH (NOT CoH2), CoD2, BF2,etc. at those resolutions....lot's of people still play at least CoD2 online (and doesn't have those crazy UAV/HELIs in MP) and theres lots of mods for CoH and BF2 to play online or offline (i actually prefer play those offline).
Having said so, i play with a A6-5400K OC to 4GHz w/ iGPU OC to 950MHz and 8GB RAM at 2133MHz (CPU, iGPU and RAM were all undervolted to cut temps and power drain).
This rig gives me more freedom to play more demanding titles that i doubt a AM1 could.
PICman - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
As usual, good review. However, as XZerg pointed out, the lack of idle and load power consumption is a problem. It's not just power consumption, but also heat generation and cooling. I guess the tests were run with a high wattage power supply, making idle power measurements meaningless?Non-working USB 3.0 ports is a big issue for me, also.
Torpe - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
How well do these chips do with Quick Sync for Handbrake?Devo2007 - Saturday, October 18, 2014 - link
Did you read the part that mentioned these are the B3-stepping processors that don't have QuickSync?abufrejoval - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
My GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V wasn't properly informed about that "fact" and just runs QuickSync anyway... Actually the initial Intel chipset drivers didn't enable QuickSync and I was quite hopping mad, because ARK had reported QuickSync support for the J1900, irrespective of the stepping.Actually I believe that the QuickSync feature gap lies between the J1850 and the J1900 and isn't stepping dependent.
abufrejoval - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
Need edit!Fortgot to mention: It's a B3 stepping and runs around 80 frames/sec of DVD to MP4 conversion using DVDFab9 using QS. The QuickSync enabled Handbrake nightly builds I tried produced faulty output and the last stable release doesn't yet support QS.
Batch video conversion isn't exactly the forte of this device, but it would make it a credible Plex server once QS support for encoding is built in (for devices that need the run-time conversion).
Torpe - Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - link
Thanks for the answer.BillyONeal - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
Windows 7 needs USB 3 drivers because Win7 has no USB 3 support. That was added in Win8.nathanddrews - Friday, October 17, 2014 - link
"Readers of our motherboard review section will have noted the trend in modern motherboards to implement a form of MultiCore Enhancement / Acceleration / Turbo on their motherboards."It's funny the difference between what turbo means today vs what it meant 30 years ago. My first PC (running Geo-DOS) had a "TURBO" button on the case that slowed it down. LOL
I've been using a Windows 8.1 (Bing) tablet with an Atom Z3735D and it's really impressive. It plays UT99 and Halo CE flawlessly at max res and settings (1280x800) and can stream games over Steam IHS. I played Halo for four hours nonstop and still had 30% battery left.