Zotac's Atom-based M-ITX Mobos For Ion Platform in The Works

DiGiTaL MoNkEY · 20th April 2009, 2:57 PM

Still looking a bit pricey, but it does have a very small footprint which does increase the cost of innovation

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Acer announced the first Ion-based nettop AspireRevo earlier this month, and now Zotac offers two models of Atom-based Mini-ITX motherboard for this sweet stuff.

The IONITX-A-U and IONITX-B-E come with Atom N330 Dual Core and Atom N230 Single Core processor respectively, and they both feature MCP79 chipset and built-in GeForce 9400 graphics processor to support PureVideo HD, CUDA and PhysX technologies. Equipped with HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs, they offer two DDR2 memory slots to support maximum DDR2-800. As we can see, the CPU and GPU share a large aluminum cooling rib with an eye toward total quietness.

Zotac IONITX-A-U and IONITX-B-E will be available first in Japan at Yen29980 (US$303) and Yen19980 (US$202) respectively.

http://en.expreview.com/2009/04/20/z...the-works.html

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Bit-tech have a first on the Zotac Nvidia Ion Mini-ITX...

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...ion-mini-itx/1

No benchmarks, but a variety of hardware shots.

dalien · 20th April 2009, 5:12 PM

What a master peice

Zotac is alot better than people give it credit

dragokahn · 20th April 2009, 6:55 PM

awesome for a HTPC

Menthu_Rae · 20th April 2009, 6:58 PM

Man, if they had a PCI-E x1 or x4 slot so you could put a SATA RAID card in that thing, would make for a tricked out mini-ITX server.

mobester · 20th April 2009, 6:59 PM

Do I infer that it won't require any form of fan - ie no case fan and no CPU fan ??

If so, I'm getting very excited about an xbmc on linux (or windows) box here.

Does the acer aspire revo have a fan ?

saba · 20th April 2009, 7:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Menthu_Rae

Man, if they had a PCI-E x1 or x4 slot so you could put a SATA RAID card in that thing, would make for a tricked out mini-ITX server.

There's so much crap on there that isn't useful for a server. Onboard audio? DVI/HDMI and graphics accelleration?

I wish there was a motherboard (non-industrial) with just a pair of gigabit (Marvell/Intel) network interfaces, a plain-jane VGA 4mb onboard graphics card, 4-8 onboard SATA, a few USB for good measure, running a dual-core Atom.

It's surprisingly difficult to find.

DiGiTaL MoNkEY · 20th April 2009, 9:15 PM

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Originally Posted by mobester

Do I infer that it won't require any form of fan - ie no case fan and no CPU fan ??

The Nvidia reference design had a smaller heatsink and a tiny fan. This version has a bigger heatsink which should compensate not having a fan.

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Originally Posted by mobester

Does the acer aspire revo have a fan ?

Haven't seen anyone take it apart yet.

ernie · 20th April 2009, 10:01 PM

That's a ripper. The Atom is not all that fast but the 9400M is!

I have never hear of Zotac, do they have an Australian distributor?

- Ernie.

Menthu_Rae · 20th April 2009, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by saba

There's so much crap on there that isn't useful for a server. Onboard audio? DVI/HDMI and graphics accelleration?

I wish there was a motherboard (non-industrial) with just a pair of gigabit (Marvell/Intel) network interfaces, a plain-jane VGA 4mb onboard graphics card, 4-8 onboard SATA, a few USB for good measure, running a dual-core Atom.

It's surprisingly difficult to find.

Server/HTPC/Torrent box. With a PCI or PCI-E slot you could use that mobo in a box that could do a lot of things.

DJ_Hippster · 21st April 2009, 10:04 AM

WooooooHoooooo

Just what i've been waiting for!

/me starts to gather mod parts in ready.

slobber · 21st April 2009, 7:40 PM

I want.............errr no I NEED one of these ASAP

I'm addicted to mobo's

Damn..........a hundred bucks US for the extra core is pushing it

digizone · 21st April 2009, 10:33 PM

God damn ION's when are they comming to market.

I need a few extra Mythtv frontends and these will be perfect.

Deja Vu · 22nd April 2009, 12:54 AM

What does "onboard DC-DC power supply" mean?

Menthu_Rae · 22nd April 2009, 1:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Deja Vu

What does "onboard DC-DC power supply" mean?

I think it means it'd use an external laptop style power brick as opposed to AC input to an internal PSU. Can't say for sure without higher res pics or proper specs though.

slobber · 22nd April 2009, 12:18 PM

Damn this thread.........especially you DM

After seeing the Zotac 9300 I went looking for a 93-400 chipset mobo to tortu.......er I mean experiment on and ended up buying the DFI LanParty JR GF9400-T2RS

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Yes...........I have an addiction that needs scratching on a far too regular basis

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