http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
Put aQ 660 along with a low profile 9800GT and you've got yourself a hell of a gaming machine that can fit in your backpack. Best part is, it's in stock at Newegg! Move over Atom, I'll take a desktop chip (even a low power one at that) for HTPC useage any day of the week.]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
In regards to the cooler issue - I'm not saying the cooler has to be under 20mm high - stick with the stock intel cooler and you would be fine (not for overclocking, but stready T nonetheless).]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
here you get a FANLESS system complete with PSU with a dual core that can play full HD!! all you need to add is a hard drive (preferably 2.5" about 100$ for 500GB) a case(50$ or build one yourself) memory (50$) a quiet fan (20$) and maybe throw in one of those remotes.
even if they sell it for 300$ you get a QUIET FULL HD capable HTPC for 500$!! ah and did i mention its tiny?

on the other hand you can have the acer hornet -- single core but cheaper and got out of the box functionality... ]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
both board have different uses in the same size package]]>Apr 21st 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
It just takes some alteration, i moved the graphics card to install a fullish height cooler and its a beauty.]]>Apr 21st 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=610

Costs a bit more, but will suit the purpose much more. Even has enough processing power to run windows home server.]]>Apr 22nd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 22nd 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
Personally I want to build my own case about 4" wide and 10 drives deep with enough room for the board and an energy efficient psu, install utorrent on it and PS3 media server and leave it on 24 for serving, downloading and streaming.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 23rd 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 24th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
I bought (here in europe) zotac 9300 itx wifi mobo for 123euro + e5200 56euro - total 179euros = 231usd ]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
Mobo: http://www.kuppc.pl/index.php?action=product&pid=10032 (was 545plz three weeks ago
CPU (on auction site) : http://www.allegro.pl/item599688308_procesor_intel_dualcore_e5200_nowy_box_gw_36_mc.html

Now i'm waiting for lian li pc-q07 case :D]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
heard this chipset could play games like L4D and Bioshock to some extent. i guess it's just really easy to make boards that comes w/ good chipsets

lulz @ the q6600 idea (e7000-8000 ftw) also the one pci-e slot from one of their miniITX lga775 i saw looks like x16 but only goes upto x4 and only houses 2xsata.. dun cry plz


p.s. L4D Pack Out Today Download It !!!!!]]>Apr 21st 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
Zotac 9300-D_E wifi mini-itx
Celeron whatever for low heat
Passive heat-sink cooling in A-tech case
Sony slot-drive Bluray Internal
2.5" HD (or SDD) w ubuntu
Clip-on case for 2 x SATA 1TB HDs in hot-swap bays
We wanna manufacture 15 of these as a test.

]]>Apr 22nd 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
That said, I'd love to get an Ion motherboard. I already have a case in mind. It's not going to supplant the primary HTPC in the living room, but it should be a nice replacement to the Popcorn Hour in the bedrooms. Maybe I'll install one in the kitchen, too. Pricing is insane, though. They need to get the dual-core version in the less than $200 range. The one thing the Atom had going for it was price. I bought the Intel D945GCLF2 dual-core Atom board for $85. True an Ion is more powerful, video-wise, but the CPU's still paltry and very few programs can leverage CUDA.]]>Apr 21st 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
ATX
FlexATX
uATX
BTX
Mini BTX
Mini ITX
Nano ITX
Pico ITX
Mobile ITX (rumour)]]>Apr 21st 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Mini-ATX: 284 × 208mm (11,2″ × 8,2″)
Micro-ATX: 244 × 244 mm (9,6″ × 9,6″)
Flex-ATX: 229 × 191 mm (9″ × 7,5″),
Mini-ITX: 170 × 170 mm (6,7″ × 6,7″)
Nano-ITX: 120 × 120 mm (4,7″ × 4,7″)
Pico-ITX: 100 × 72mm (4″ × 2,8″)
E-ATX-Format: 305 × 330 mm (12″ × 13″)]]>Apr 21st 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/]]>Apr 21st 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
The Ion platform uses significantly less power than the GMA platform, and I need to squeeze every watt I can with a motorcycle computer (including switching lights to LED from incandescent, not including the headlights)]]>Apr 21st 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
I know that porn at 150mph is exhilarating but dont become another statistic.]]>Apr 21st 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
thats a very good point actually take note stereodude. Mini-itx motherboards are the computers of cars 95% of the time. if not more. Fanless, Less heat and less battery consumption will mean alot.]]>Apr 21st 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
The end.]]>Apr 21st 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
My favorite combo is:
9300 Wifi with
3.3Ghz Core 2
4Gb DDR2 800 OCZ Gold
CompuCase 8K07
1Tb HDD
32Gb SLC SSD for OS (If i can be affording it...)
Slot loading mashita DVDRW]]>Apr 21st 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
the intel atom 330 is a great board. and cheap to at around £70 if only they built a ion based atom itx board but they never will :(]]>Apr 21st 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/Apr 21st 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/
Zotac 9300-D_E wifi mini-itx
Celeron whatever for low heat
Passive heat-sink cooling in A-tech case
Sony slot-drive Bluray
Internal 2.5: HD (or SDD)
Clip-on case for 2 x SATA 1TB HDs in hot-swap bays
We wanna manufacture 15 of these as a test.]]>Apr 22nd 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/zotac-jumping-in-ion-filled-waters-with-new-mini-itx-motherboard/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC_Media_Center

Put that together with OCZ's new Mini-PCIe SSD in 16GB or 32GB capacity:
http://hothardware.com/News/OCZ-Technology-Introduces-MiniPCIExpress-SSDs/

XBMC Media Center for Linux supports VDPAU decoding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU]]>Apr 24th 2009 10:21AM