OC3D Review: Zotac ION ITX-F Motherboard
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Nice review, but seems a bit of an odd combination. The only point of the pcie slot is for gpus but the cpu hasn't got the grunt. If you want an HTPC, you would be better off with the previous ion board, for gaming the 9300 775.
I suppose you could run a decent home media server with the pcie slot used for a high performance raid card and have all your movies and music piped all over the house?
I suppose you could run a decent home media server with the pcie slot used for a high performance raid card and have all your movies and music piped all over the house?
Rastalovich
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Excellent read.
I think the phoneyness of the artificial benchmarks raise their ugly head here and shouldn't be too frowned upon in judgement.
The CoD4 w/8800gt is still impressive for me. Would like to have seen the stock 1.6 w/8800gt, but sneakingly think it'll be as-good, or good enough.
Would be nice to have dropped an AMD HD4xxxx+ card in there too to see how much the cpu effects the driver dependence.
It's certainly a different science than a regular mobo/cpu, and I like what it's achieving as I liked the previous models.
Soon as all the 775 kit I have goes south, I'd certainly consider for a htpc/media front room effort, with a gfxcard that u can keep in reserve. Although by the time that comes, there'll be new kit about I'm sure.
Good stuff, love a comment on the onboard sound.
I think the phoneyness of the artificial benchmarks raise their ugly head here and shouldn't be too frowned upon in judgement.
The CoD4 w/8800gt is still impressive for me. Would like to have seen the stock 1.6 w/8800gt, but sneakingly think it'll be as-good, or good enough.
Would be nice to have dropped an AMD HD4xxxx+ card in there too to see how much the cpu effects the driver dependence.
It's certainly a different science than a regular mobo/cpu, and I like what it's achieving as I liked the previous models.
Soon as all the 775 kit I have goes south, I'd certainly consider for a htpc/media front room effort, with a gfxcard that u can keep in reserve. Although by the time that comes, there'll be new kit about I'm sure.
Good stuff, love a comment on the onboard sound.
@Diablo
You have a fair point about the PCI-Express 16x slot. Even if you don't wish to use a dedicated graphics card, you're free to drop a PCI-E 1x/2x/4x card instead.
@Rasta
As far as the sound chip goes, there wasn't a lot to report. The sound quality itself when paired with a Cambridge Audio 5.1 set was more than acceptable and the cpu utilisation was low and of little concern. During this review, I didn't have access to a Monitor/TV with inbuilt speakers and so sound over HDMI could not be tested however I had no complaints with the onboard sound.
Thanks for the feedback.
You have a fair point about the PCI-Express 16x slot. Even if you don't wish to use a dedicated graphics card, you're free to drop a PCI-E 1x/2x/4x card instead.
@Rasta
As far as the sound chip goes, there wasn't a lot to report. The sound quality itself when paired with a Cambridge Audio 5.1 set was more than acceptable and the cpu utilisation was low and of little concern. During this review, I didn't have access to a Monitor/TV with inbuilt speakers and so sound over HDMI could not be tested however I had no complaints with the onboard sound.
Thanks for the feedback.
I was thinking it would be best to use as a mini fold rig with the pcie, super lower power ect. Or drop a nice sound card in and have it as a high end HTPC.
sammytomjohn
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name='Shinho' said:
not a very good price tho! :nono:
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