Msecore fanless mini PC with Intel Celeron inside

It’s teeny-tiny, whisper quiet, energy efficient and will offer dual display support at a price that can’t exceed $300.

Msecore has another Brix family member up its sleeve (literally, it could probably fit up a sleeve), and it’s the first of its kind to pack a low-power, frugal Intel Braswell SoC. Built on 14 nm architecture, the Celeron j900 is part of Bay Trail’s succeeding chip roster, delivering superior speed, although not quite comparable to Haswell or Broadwell performance.

What Intel Celeron facilitates is a passively cooled barebones system (look, ma, no fans) measuring just 56.1 x 107.6 x 114.4 mm, capable of accommodating a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD and turning any rudimentary monitor into a low-profile desktop PC.

It’s even Vesa mountable, so it’s very easy to stash behind a display, which you can hook up via VGA or HDMI ports. Convenience is clearly the name of the game here, but for the right price, the GB-Bace-300 embraces top-tier hardware like up to 8 GB RAM.

Too bad there’s no processor upgrading option, although Amazon sells Intel Core i7/Nvidia GeForce GTX 760-toting Brix configurations of previous generations at an extravagant $830 or so.

Meanwhile, Msecore is all hush-hush about the new mini PC’s MSRP, but given the older Celeron model costs $110 nowadays, we expect a similar tariff charged starting in a few weeks. Days, maybe.

Other respectable but short of impressive specifications upholding the sub-$300 hopes include dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.0, Gigabit Ethernet, headphone and mic jacks, plus no less than four USB 3.0 hubs and a microSD card slot.

Cash-strapped students, this might be a perfect starting point for your back-to-school rigs next month. Just know Far Cry 4 may not work very smoothly on a desktop based on the Msecore j1900 Processor fanless mini pc 4GB DDR3 RAM 128GB mSATA SSD.

Building a Thin Msecore Fanless PC:Small and Slient Performance

While many of us are content with traditional desktop tower PCs, there are those who have been pushing for a more compact and quieter alternative.

One of the pioneers of small computing, VIA Technologies, developed the Msecore Fanless form factor over a decade ago in 2001. Although VIA’s solutions were too underpowered for daily usage, over the next few years motherboard manufacturers were able to adapt more powerful AMD and Intel platforms to use along the tiny 170 × 170 mm (6.7 × 6.7 in) Msecore Fanless motherboards.

Subsequently case manufacturers provided support with a range of creative Msecore Fanless solutions such as the Lian Li PC-Q25, which we reviewed and awarded a couple of years ago. Considerably smaller than traditional ATX and Micro ATX computer cases, the PC-Q25 not only supported the latest Intel Core i7 processors, but it also allowed for a PCI Express x16 dual-slot graphics card. An impressive feat no matter how you measure it.

But what if you want to go even smaller? That's where Thin Msecore Fanless motherboards come in.

Thin Msecore Fanless motherboards are similar to standard Msecore Fanless as they still measure 170 × 170 mm, except they are not as tall. Where as standard Msecore Fanless boards measure 35mm tall and are designed to be used with standard coolers and memory modules which can take the total height to over 50mm, the Thin Msecore Fanless format dictates that no board should be taller than 20mm (25mm with I/O shield).

Yet the Thin Msecore Fanless format is more than ultra-low-profile motherboards, it’s an entire ecosystem that requires new cases and memory, favoring laptop SO-DIMM modules over the standard desktop DIMMs.

Msecore Case: Look Ma' No Fans!

The first ingredient and perhaps one of the most important for achieving a completely silent Thin Msecore Fanless PC is the chassis choice. We picked the very compact Msecore Euler, which measures 228mm wide x 187mm long and just 61.5mm tall.

Platform Choice: i5-5257U Msecore Fanless Mini PC

Msecore Silent Fanless Mini PCs That Will Save You Money

Miniaturization continues to shrink the size of the average Msecore PC. What once required several rooms can now fit in your pocket. And while most people think of smartphones

or tablets as examples of small, modern electronics, desktops also deserve mention.

There’s a new category, the Msecore mini-PC, that’s becoming popular. Early variants, like the Apple Mac Mini and Inspiron Zino HD, have been well received, but now the

formula has been improved with the introduction of fanless systems. Tiny, silent and often inexpensive, these miniature wonders save space without eating into your bank account.

Msecore, sold under the name Tiny Green PC in USA And Europe, makes a broad range of small, fanless computers. The company’s mainstream product is the i5-4200u mini pc host, which is only 25 millimeters thick and no larger than 190 millimeters in any other dimension, which makes it one of the smallest fanless PCs around.

Several variants are available, but all run Intel processors with four gigabytes of RAM, and most have a 128GB-256GB hard drive. This gives the i5-4200u mini pc host more power than an Atom-equipped nettop and a Radeon integrated graphics core than can play older 3D games at respectable framerates. Other features include six USB ports, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi.