ph4nt0m: Colorful Atom Quad Core SBC

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Here we have something special. There are many Atom based mini-ITX boards, single board PCs, video players, etc. This one is different.

Quad core Atom, Intel Bay Trail 22nm (Celeron J1900). 2.0GHz base, 2.42GHz turbo on all four cores, 10W TDP. 4x 24Kb + 4x 32Kb L1 cache, 2x 1Mb L2 cache. Integrated video with a HDMI port, one SODIMM slot for DDR3-1333 up to 8Gb, one mSATA-600 and one SATA-600 port, two USB 2.0 ports, two gigabit Ethernet ports.

Needs not a full ATX power supply. There is a 4-pin ATX12V connector, but you can really use any 12V power supply producing 2 amps.



BTW decent 3D performance, comparable to GeForce 6600GT. Can do games of the early 2000's.





Now the interesting part. There is an extension board providing 8 PCI Express slots through an ASMedia bridge chip and a great number of 6-pin power connectors. It was supposed to be a miner



The first board is Colorful C.J1900A-BTC PLUS V20, the second is C.BTC PCIE-8P V20. AMI Alaska BIOS with UEFI shell.

Both boards are NOS, though they are less than 2 years old. Colorful designed them in late 2017 when mining was a prime thing, but when they started production in 2018, mining was on a decline. These boards were retailed for over $100.

$60 each