http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 and its Ion 2 innards reviewed 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/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Just throw XBMC on it and install the YouTube plugin, and it will the vid's through it's own codec. My XBMC setup does 720p youtube video without a hitch (note: this is under Linux, no idea how well it works on Windows).]]>May 7th 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Just realized that you guys want to watch Hulu too, my bad. In that case: let's all hope Flash video dies really, really soon.]]>May 7th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
Care to share the specs and price? At this point these things should be coming out soon but I've been contemplating building my own as well...]]>May 7th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Bgears BG01176 b-Envi Aluminum/Plastic Mini Tower Case Black
Antec Earthwatts EA 430D Green PSU 430w ATX Power Supply
AMD x2 7850, asus m2n68-am plus, gskill 2gb (combo deal from NewEgg)
MSI 4550
I just bought whatever was on sale at the moment. Everything mention above is $220 after rebate.



]]>May 7th 2010 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Meh way too big for my liking. Also it's a regular cpu.. I want something nearly silent and low form-factor.]]>May 7th 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
Did you get everything from Newegg?]]>May 7th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/NO, Mwave, ZipZoomFly and Newegg.
@bstock
I tried to find a smaller case but they are very rare. As for the noise issue, I doubt this will get loud. I don't have to have it on 24/7 anyway. It will be turn on as needed. ]]>May 7th 2010 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
And what? 60 dB to boast as well...]]>May 7th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Jun 28th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
Yeah, I know... It's too bad they didn't write a short article under the headline!]]>May 7th 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/If you are playing said 480p video in a window and then stretch said window it'll crawl.
"Even 480p content won't play smoothly if you scale it up to too large of a window." From the Anandtech site

That sucks. I guess that narrows my choice to two items for my living room set up, an ion1 set up or a WD live box.]]>May 7th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Because atom + ion runs cool and quiet, and should be more than enough if you only use it as an HTPC? My Ion-based home-server/HTPC is always on, so the fact that it only uses 20W under full load and not much more then 10W when idle, is a big plus. 1080p video works beautifully on it, but then again, I don't watch Flash-based video with it.]]>May 7th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/The Zino HD is also nearly completely silent, and has a similar power footprint.]]>May 7th 2010 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/Actually, an AM3 single-core runs at 45w TPD. That CPU runs two times faster or better than the average Atom, and I believe should run about one and a half times faster than the dual-core Pineview. Also note that there are Athlon dual-cores which, in my opinion, should be perfect for an HTPC because they can handle more than enough to compensate for bad graphics on whatever motherboard you get. Such a build should easily be able to do fairly well on anything and more you would throw at an HTPC. I came up with a build (with a blu-ray burner, mind you) and OEM Windows at about $640. Naturally, 2 GB of memory, a strong Athlon Dual-core, and a nice Biostar Micro-Atx Motherboard. Quite a good case, looks great in the pictures and is smaller than an average receiver.

Just for a heads-up, I put a 140 dollar case with IR and Windows Media support as the case and power supply. Frugal users could come up with a lower price easily. Such a system could be set up entirely within online sites.]]>May 8th 2010 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
I'm running a Atom N330 + ION Windows 7 32-bit build and I have not had much success streaming Hulu fullscreen from Hulu Desktop.. I get a flickering when I have it in full screen mode. Even windowed at 1080p resolution, it is choppy. I'm wondering if there is something I can do to improve Hulu performance.]]>May 7th 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/I read through this blog and found out exactly what i needed to know. http://www.pauljroberts.com/my-personal-revo-3610-set-up-that-works-well

let us know how it goes?]]>May 7th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
http://www.pauljroberts.com/flash-beta-10-1-1p-files-for-revo-ion]]>May 7th 2010 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/
Usually, you need to click on the image to link out to the source. That's on the iPhone app anyway.
Hth]]>May 7th 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 7th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 8th 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/zotac-zbox-hd-id11-and-its-ion-2-innards-reviewed/May 10th 2010 11:13AM