Zotac's GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi motherboard

FLB · 30th March 2009, 6:57 PM

Nice looking LGA775 ITX mobo reviewed -

http://techreport.com/articles.x/16642

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Zotac's GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi proves that you don't have to give up performance to squeeze into a Mini-ITX form factor. The board's LGA775 socket is compatible with a wide range of attractive processors, dual memory channels deliver plenty of bandwidth to arguably the best integrated graphics chipset around, a PCI Express x16 slot provides plenty of expansion potential for gamers, and you even get 802.11b/g Wi-Fi onboard. It's no surprise, then, that the 9300-ITX is the best Mini-ITX board we've ever tested. Heck, it's better than a lot of Micro ATX boards I've seen.

What makes the 9300-ITX so appealing is the fact that it's quite flexible. Even with a low-end processor, you should have more than enough horsepower to drive a home theater PC that can play back Blu-ray movies smoothly over HDMI. The board has just about everything you'd need for a diminutive desktop, too. With the addition of a discrete graphics card, you could even build yourself a potent gaming rig that's easy to tote to LAN parties.

SLATYE · 30th March 2009, 7:04 PM

Only two SATA ports seems a bit limiting. You can have a HDD, optical drive, and nothing else. I'm not sure why they'd do that - there appear to be solder dots for a third SATA port right next to the other two.

Still, for a mini-ITX board it looks pretty nice.

FLB · 30th March 2009, 7:14 PM

There is an e-sata connector fed by the same controller on the rear IO panel. As a HTPC it would be fine for me as I stream all my stuff to the HTPC anyway, but for a gaming box it would become limiting unless you had an e-sata caddy with a nice big HDD in there as well.

But with all the onboard HDMI etc, seems they are pushing a nice small HTPC box.

I guess a sata/raid card could also be run in the x16 slot as well if onboard gfx were ample.

Guszast3r · 30th March 2009, 8:13 PM

It looks as though it doesn't come with an aerial though that's odd.

DiGiTaL MoNkEY · 30th March 2009, 9:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Guszast3r

It looks as though it doesn't come with an aerial though that's odd.

They might of not attached it, but i'm sure a retail package would come with one.

XTRO · 30th March 2009, 10:14 PM

That is a sweet find man...
Be nice in a car puter...

wanna_ · 30th March 2009, 10:30 PM

rrp? expensive im guessing. its got grunt for a little one

millsy_c · 16th April 2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by wanna_

rrp? expensive im guessing. its got grunt for a little one

According to staticice you can pre order one from aus pc market, at around 300dollars delivered

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All in all though it's a pretty awesome board.

koss · 21st April 2009, 7:56 PM

That's a good review. Editors choice and all. Might have to get one for home.

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SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 21,038	Only two SATA ports seems a bit limiting. You can have a HDD, optical drive, and nothing else. I'm not sure why they'd do that - there appear to be solder dots for a third SATA port right next to the other two. Still, for a mini-ITX board it looks pretty nice. __________________ Main system: Pentium-D 805 \| 1GB (2x 512MB) PQI DDR400 \| Gigabyte 8I865GMK-775 \| Xtreama Radeon 9800Pro with Zalman ZM-80HP-D \| 320GB WD SATA HDD \| Antec SmartPower 2.0 500w Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600

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FLB Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Adelaide Posts: 3,192	There is an e-sata connector fed by the same controller on the rear IO panel. As a HTPC it would be fine for me as I stream all my stuff to the HTPC anyway, but for a gaming box it would become limiting unless you had an e-sata caddy with a nice big HDD in there as well. But with all the onboard HDMI etc, seems they are pushing a nice small HTPC box. I guess a sata/raid card could also be run in the x16 slot as well if onboard gfx were ample.

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wanna_ Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 3912 Posts: 272	rrp? expensive im guessing. its got grunt for a little one