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Zotac Ion Mini-ITX with Atom N330 review

Nvidia's new Ion platform gives Intel's Atom processor some sizzle

Our Score 3.5

Last reviewed: 2009-06-22June 22nd 2009

Price at launch £170.00
MPN IONITXDE
Description Intel Atom Dual Core and Nvidia Ion Mini ITX motherboard
Features CPU: Intel Atom N330 1.6GHz Dual Core / Graphics: Nvidia 9400M
Additional Information 3 x SATA connections, 1 x D-Sub Video out, 1 x DVI video out, 1 x HDMI video out
Front Side Bus 533MHz
Number Of USB Ports On Motherboard 10
Onboard Sound Properties 5.1 surround
RAM Type DDR2 SDRAM

Product Summary

IONITX-A-U

Zotac ION

Price at launch

£170.00

For

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Huge feature set

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Great HD decode performance

Against

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Atom CPU is still weedy

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Way too expensive

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