Zotac Zbox Nano AD10 plus
High performance energy-efficient computing is only a couple
thumbscrews away with the ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10 Plus mini-PC thanks to a
user-friendly design that makes mastering the mini-PC quick and easy.
Space for a 2.5-inch hard drive and a 204-pin DDR3-1066 SO-DIMM slot
enables users to customize the internals of the ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10
Plus to their own needs – a 320GB hard drive and 2GB of DDR3-1066 are
included -- while USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, a 6-in-1 memory card reader
(SD/SDHC/MS/MS Pro/xD/MMC) and eSATA port provide greater external
expansion capabilities for perfect palm-sized energy-efficient
computing.
Raise your performance expectations for energy-efficient computing with the palm-sized ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10 mini-PC powered by the AMD E-350 APU platform. Paired with AMD Radeon™ Discrete-Class Graphics, the ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10 delivers the perfect synergy of GPU and CPU performance for a rich multimedia computing experience with flawless high-definition video playback capabilities and ultra-fast responsiveness for regular day-to-day computing tasks.
Raise your performance expectations for energy-efficient computing with the palm-sized ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10 mini-PC powered by the AMD E-350 APU platform. Paired with AMD Radeon™ Discrete-Class Graphics, the ZOTAC ZBOX nano AD10 delivers the perfect synergy of GPU and CPU performance for a rich multimedia computing experience with flawless high-definition video playback capabilities and ultra-fast responsiveness for regular day-to-day computing tasks.
ASROCK A75M-ITX and H61M-ITX
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MINI-ITX Case 2 by Wesena
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J&W unleashes the world’s 1st USB3.0, SATA 6Gbps & Core Unlock ITX Motherboard.
Hong Kong, 1st June 2010 – J&W Technology Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards, notebooks and AIO PCs today unleashes the world’s first USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gbps mini-ITX form factor MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 motherboard.
“MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 is the most powerful mini-ITX motherboard that ever existed, we planned to launch this motherboard since 2009 and the specification was revised for several times to make it the “best-of-the-best” mini-ITX motherboard on the market. Many users have the misunderstanding that small cannot be powerful, or mini-ITX is only capable to play HD videos, we want to prove that mini-ITX can be small and powerful by launching the MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 motherboard.” Ken Wong, Product Marketing Manager of J&W Technology Ltd. explained the product philosophy of MINIX™ 890GX-USB3. “MINIX™ 890GX-USB not only offering the most powerful integrated graphics chipset, but also the latest high-speed USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps features, its launch witnesses the advancement of technologies. I believe nobody would have imagined running a 6-core processor on a mini-ITX motherboard few years ago.”
Powered by AMD’s latest and fastest 890GX IGP chipset, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4290 graphics allows the MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 motherboard to fully support Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1, UVD2, Full HD 1080p playback, dual-stream PiP on Blu-Ray™, and multi video outputs. The graphics performance is further enhanced by the onboard 128MB high-speed DDR3 sideport memory. Based on socket AM3, MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 supports the AMD® Phenom™ II series, Athlon™ II series and Sempron™-100 series processors. More excitingly, the motherboard support the exclusive, Windows® based Core-unlocking utility – the Just Unlock Core (JUC) Technology which is capable to unlock the “hidden core” of the processors, a free and user-friendly “CPU upgrade” tool for users. With the latest AMD® SB850 southbridge, MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 is ready to support the latest SATA 6Gbps hard drives, and is the world’s first mini-ITX motherboard supporting this feature, thus users can setup their 6Gbps RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 arrays on a mini-ITX system.
MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 supports the latest Super Speed USB 3.0 connection powered by the onboard NEC uPD720200 host controller. The transfer rate could be up to 5Gbps, which is almost 10 times faster over the USB 2.0. MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 also comes with 2 x Broadcom PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet which allows users to connect the PC to another PC through LAN, to form home-router, NAS, and other applications are made possible on this small form factor motherboard. The PCI-Express x16 Gen.2 slot provides an upgrade option for users to plug-in an extra graphics card, RAID card or other PCI-Express devices whenever necessary. Last but not least, the onboard mini-PCIe slot provides another upgrade option for users to add a mini-PCIe device such as a wifi card to form a Tri-LAN PC system.
“MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 is the most powerful mini-ITX motherboard that ever existed, we planned to launch this motherboard since 2009 and the specification was revised for several times to make it the “best-of-the-best” mini-ITX motherboard on the market. Many users have the misunderstanding that small cannot be powerful, or mini-ITX is only capable to play HD videos, we want to prove that mini-ITX can be small and powerful by launching the MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 motherboard.” Ken Wong, Product Marketing Manager of J&W Technology Ltd. explained the product philosophy of MINIX™ 890GX-USB3. “MINIX™ 890GX-USB not only offering the most powerful integrated graphics chipset, but also the latest high-speed USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps features, its launch witnesses the advancement of technologies. I believe nobody would have imagined running a 6-core processor on a mini-ITX motherboard few years ago.”
Powered by AMD’s latest and fastest 890GX IGP chipset, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4290 graphics allows the MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 motherboard to fully support Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1, UVD2, Full HD 1080p playback, dual-stream PiP on Blu-Ray™, and multi video outputs. The graphics performance is further enhanced by the onboard 128MB high-speed DDR3 sideport memory. Based on socket AM3, MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 supports the AMD® Phenom™ II series, Athlon™ II series and Sempron™-100 series processors. More excitingly, the motherboard support the exclusive, Windows® based Core-unlocking utility – the Just Unlock Core (JUC) Technology which is capable to unlock the “hidden core” of the processors, a free and user-friendly “CPU upgrade” tool for users. With the latest AMD® SB850 southbridge, MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 is ready to support the latest SATA 6Gbps hard drives, and is the world’s first mini-ITX motherboard supporting this feature, thus users can setup their 6Gbps RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 arrays on a mini-ITX system.
MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 supports the latest Super Speed USB 3.0 connection powered by the onboard NEC uPD720200 host controller. The transfer rate could be up to 5Gbps, which is almost 10 times faster over the USB 2.0. MINIX™ 890GX-USB3 also comes with 2 x Broadcom PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet which allows users to connect the PC to another PC through LAN, to form home-router, NAS, and other applications are made possible on this small form factor motherboard. The PCI-Express x16 Gen.2 slot provides an upgrade option for users to plug-in an extra graphics card, RAID card or other PCI-Express devices whenever necessary. Last but not least, the onboard mini-PCIe slot provides another upgrade option for users to add a mini-PCIe device such as a wifi card to form a Tri-LAN PC system.
ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe
Intel® CPU on Board
Integrated Dual-core Intel® Atom™ processor 330
NVIDIA ION™ Graphics Processors
2 x DIMM, Max. 4 GB, DDR3 1066/800
1 x PCIe x16 slot
1 x BlueTooth
1 x 2-CH RCA AUDIO
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
90W Adaptor & Power Cord
1 x 4-pin to SATA Power cabel
Remote Controller & Receiver
Integrated Dual-core Intel® Atom™ processor 330
NVIDIA ION™ Graphics Processors
2 x DIMM, Max. 4 GB, DDR3 1066/800
1 x PCIe x16 slot
1 x BlueTooth
1 x 2-CH RCA AUDIO
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
90W Adaptor & Power Cord
1 x 4-pin to SATA Power cabel
Remote Controller & Receiver
What is a mini-ITX?
Zotac ION Synergy
Mini-ITX is a 17 x 17 cm (or 6.7 x 6.7 inches) low-power motherboard form factor developed by VIA Technologies. Mini-ITX is slightly smaller than micro-ATX. Mini-ITX boards can often be passively cooled due to their low power consumption architecture, which makes them useful for home theater systems, where fan noise can detract from the cinema experience.
Intel was the first to market a mini-ITX Atom based motherboard: the D945GCLF. Based on a single-core Atom 230 running at 1.6GHz, the D945GCLF is a relatively simple motherboard. It has a single DDR2 DIMM slot supporting up to 2GB of memory (DDR2-400 or 533 only). There’s no support for a modern day GPU, there’s only an old 32-bit PCI slot on the motherboard. You get two SATA and one PATA connector on board, four USB, no DVI/HDMI output (only VGA) and a standard set of three analog audio ports.
As the name implies, the D945GCLF uses Intel’s 945G chipset and correspondingly slow graphics. However if you don’t need a ton of performance, Intel’s desktop Atom solution is quite attractive as it sells for under $70 - CPU included (it’s soldered onto the board). With the quiet introduction of the dual-core Atom, Intel released the D945GCLF2. Nearly identical to its single core predecessor, the D945GCLF2 uses a larger heatsink on the CPU and a smaller one on the GMCH (although it is still cooled by a fan). The board also uses a 24-pin ATX power connector instead of a 20-pin connector, adds S-Video out and a Gigabit Ethernet port (the D945GCLF only has a 10/100 port).
Zotac is the first manufacturer to produce a mini-ITX motherboard based on NVIDIA’s Ion platform. Take Intel’s Atom processor, pair it up with NVIDIA’s Ion chipset (which is basically a GeForce 9300 chipset) and you have the Ion platform. (Source: Anandtech)
Official Entry of Cheapskate & Bill Owens of Mnpctech to Nvidia ION Case Mod Contest
"Hi everybody! I'm Bill Owen from Mnpctech.
First off, I want to thank everyone at Modders-Inc, Nvidia, CPU for organizing this contest. It was a pleasure participating with some of the best modders in the world. I would also like to thank Corsair and Logic Supply for sponsoring everybody!........."
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Asus releases the ION EeeBox EB1501
ASUS brings an impressive offering to the nettop world with its EB1501 nettop. Not only does it have ION, but it also comes with the dual-core Atom 330. It comes with all of the usual ION features like HDMI etc. but this nettop stands apart from the rest in a few ways. First, you can have up to 4 GB ram, which is more than the average nettop these days. The EB1501 also has a nice slot loading DVD drive which keeps the nettop nice and slim. Expect to see this thing in stores sometime after the Windows 7 release on October 22nd with a price tag of about $581.00 (€399).
ZOTAC unleashes MAG HD-ND01
From the living room to the kitchen the ZOTAC MAG delivers a premium multimedia experience. The ZOTAC MAG packs fluid high-definition video playback capabilities into a slim, compact system that is silent and perfect for all home environments
Whether you want to process documents or catch up on the latest movies and TV shows online or offline, the ZOTAC MAG is up to the task with it’s powerful NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor and energy efficient Intel® Atom™ processor. NVIDIA PureVideo technology enables smooth DVD video playback with vivid colors and superior picture quality. With PureVideo technology, movies are displayed with stunning quality while keeping CPU utilization to a minimum."
Whether you want to process documents or catch up on the latest movies and TV shows online or offline, the ZOTAC MAG is up to the task with it’s powerful NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor and energy efficient Intel® Atom™ processor. NVIDIA PureVideo technology enables smooth DVD video playback with vivid colors and superior picture quality. With PureVideo technology, movies are displayed with stunning quality while keeping CPU utilization to a minimum."
ZOTAC unleashes ION itx-G Synergy Edition
Experience fluid and vivid high-definition video playback with the ultra-compact ZOTAC ION™ motherboard. The mini-ITX form factor ZOTAC ION™ motherboards combine a high-performance NVIDIA® ION graphics processor with a power-efficient Intel® Atom™ processor for the ultimate eco-friendly platform that has no troubles handling regular web browsing, e-mail, productivity and HD video playback tasks.
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology harnesses the power of the NVIDIA® ION™ GPU’s 16 high-speed stream processors for high-definition Blu-ray playback capabilities. PureVideo™ HD technology decodes HD video formats and enhances standard-definition videos with the NVIDIA® ION™ GPU for flawless HD and superior SD video playback. NVIDIA PureVideo technology enables smooth DVD video playback with vivid colors and superior picture quality. With PureVideo technology, movies are displayed with stunning quality while keeping CPU utilization to a minimum."
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology harnesses the power of the NVIDIA® ION™ GPU’s 16 high-speed stream processors for high-definition Blu-ray playback capabilities. PureVideo™ HD technology decodes HD video formats and enhances standard-definition videos with the NVIDIA® ION™ GPU for flawless HD and superior SD video playback. NVIDIA PureVideo technology enables smooth DVD video playback with vivid colors and superior picture quality. With PureVideo technology, movies are displayed with stunning quality while keeping CPU utilization to a minimum."
We Are All About mini-ITX. 2009 mini-ITX Philippines
