Asrock ion 330

spaceman · 15 Jul 2009 at 12:12

has anyone got one of these? thoughts?

i'm thinking of replacing my noisy old opteron 146 desktop with one. It only gets used for web surfing, downloading and streaming films to my 360.

i've got no idea about atom processors, is a 330 going to be faster or slower than my opteron @ 2.6ghz? i've read they can be overclocked to 2.1ghz in this machine.

they dont seem too bad for £230ish

Sareth · 15 Jul 2009 at 12:26

I'd be interested in this info as well, thinking of picking one up for a relative.

spaceman · 18 Jul 2009 at 19:17

they seem popular on here, lol

i ordered one anyway

raptormonkey · 20 Jul 2009 at 00:20

spaceman said:
they seem popular on here, lol

i ordered one anyway

Let us know what you think of it. A nice review would be great!

spaceman · 28 Jul 2009 at 11:37

it arrived Friday, first thing i did was install 4gb of ram then installed win7 x64 on it.

works fine for my needs, doesnt seem any slower than my old opteron PC for what i use it for

i'm running it at stock 1.6ghz, i havent overclocked it yet (not sure i'll bother) but it has BIOS settings for up to 2.1ghz (ez overclocking or something) if you cant be bothered to change all the settings yourself.

it's not silent, but a lot quieter than my old PC, lol

it's smaller than i thought it was going to be, about the size of a wii but a bit thicker