AMD's E-350 APU comes pre-mounted on these Mini-ITX motherboards, making them cheap and compelling for light-use PCs and media players. Just add a case, power supply, ram and storage.
Gigabyte's E350N-USB3 comes with a pretty simple bundle, keeping with the low cost focus of the product.
The I/O plane has various graphics outputs for the e-350's GPU and like all Gigabyte motherboards comes with two USB 3 ports.
The E-350 only has a single channel memory controller, so you can use one or both of the DDR3 memory slots. Despite the fact that there is a x16 PCI-Express graphics card slot, it is only a x4 one electrically.
The E-350N USB3 without its heatsink. On the right is the chipset, while the APU sits on the left in this picture. The single heatsink used by Gigabyte is enough to cool both chips (the E-350 only draws 18W of power).
MSI's offering is the E350IA-E45. It also comes with a fairly basic bundle.
MSI packs a few more USB ports than Gigabyte, and still has USB 3 support.
From above we can see the same two RAM slots, x16 PCI-e (again x4 electrically). The main difference is that MSI uses separate coolers for the two AMD chips.
You can see the physical and functional similarities with the two boards when they sit side-by-side.
Slight differences in the I/O planes are the only real layout differences for the motherboards.
AMD's E-350 APU comes pre-mounted on these Mini-ITX motherboards, making them cheap and compelling for light-use PCs and media players. Just add a case, power supply, ram and storage.