ION ITX Build

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Hey,

after my old quad core Q6600 got sent to a server room for NAS and Hosting server i was missing having a pc. Laptop isn't quite the same.

I wanted something as small as i could build, silent and consume as little power with out being dog slow.

Came across the Zotac IONITX range of ITX boards. I choose the F-E version with built-in in WIFI and a PCIE16 slot for future upgradabilty. That particular board had an ATOM N330 Dual core CPU in with a Nvidia ION GPU (Based on the 9400)

Standard CPU clock is 1607mhz but with a mild overclock to 2009mhz see's a fast little box. Dual core|HTT enabled

The case was an Akasa Crypto, 4 GB of Crucial DDR2 800. 250GB 2.5" SATA 7200 HDD and a slimline sony dvdrw drive.

The system is powered by an external power supply. inside the case is a dc-dc converter board.

Pictures speak a thousand words so they say....

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Comments always welcome :)
 
Nice, very tidy build, it would make a decent little media pc. However Atom based machines are dog slow :p ...or I think so, I couldn't use one as a desktop computer really.
 
I've just built a HTPC using the same motherboard and case. I had trouble fitting the hard drive as my memory modules have heat spreaders fitted, I ended up fitting the harddrive where the DVD drive should go.

I have XBMC Aeon MQ 2 running and it and so far the system seems to be more than capable of running everything that I have tried. I'm very pleased with the performance of the Zotac board and I am amazed at how much they have squeezed onto it.
 
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