Home Media Not Only at Zotac IONITX-AE
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Good day, the venerable Khabravchane.
My start was not very successful, which I am very sorry. Please forgive me for this, I will be corrected.
Today I want to present to your court my first review of computer hardware in my life.
I recently wanted to bring home such a multifunctional "media center", and such that not only to watch movies on it and listen to music, but also to sit on the Internet, administer the server, but also at a price so that it does not come out very expensive.
In general, a rather small, but not very bad computer.
My choice fell on the Atom 330. Total I took for myself:
1. The motherboard - Zotac IONITX-AE / Atom330
2. DVD-RW - LG
3. Memory - DDR2 2Gb / 6400 Kingston
4. HDD - 500 Gb Hitachi
5. Case - CFI Group CBI-A8989TG mITX
I do not see the point of describing DVD, memory and HDD, everything is pretty standard here.
Perhaps I'll start with the case:
Format | Desktop |
Description | housing with power supply |
Power Supply | 150 watts |
Fans | 1 x 80m |
Weight | 2.6 kg |
Number of bays | 3.5 ”external / internal 1 |
Dimensions | 303x166x200 mm |
Number of bays | 5.25 ”1 |
Front Panel | USB2.0 x2, audio |
Compatible Motherboard Format | Mini-ITX |
Products webpage | www.chyangfun.com |
The first thing I threw out my native power supply from the case, because I don’t need him there, only he will occupy a place. The mother has her own external food. True, he left an “extension cord” from the power supply to the rear panel, so that it would not look like a “missing hole” in the missing socket.
In principle, with the case everything is clear and extremely clear.
Now the tastiest thing is the Zotac motherboard
Honestly, I wanted to first assemble myself on a regular Intel and don’t soar my brain, but a friend advised me to pay attention to this manufacturer and I never regretted taking this mother.
So, to start the characteristics:
Model | IONITX-AE (the last letter indicates the market for which it is intended. In this case, Europe) |
Chipset | |
Manufacturer | Nvidia |
mGPU | ION |
CPU | |
Name | Intel Atom N330 (dual-core) (1.6 GHz) HyperThreading |
Sokket | NA (soldered) |
FSB | 533 MHz |
Memory | |
A type | DDR2 |
Frequency | 667/800 MHz |
Slots | 2 240-pin DIMM |
Volume | up to 4 GB |
3D API | |
Directx | 10 |
Opengl | 2.1 |
Built-in wifi | |
Standard | 802.11n |
Ports | |
DVI | 1 (HDCP) |
HDMI | 1 (HDCP w / 7.1-channel Audio) |
Vga | 1 |
SATA | 3 (SATA 3.0 Gbps) |
eSATA | 1 (SATA 3.0 Gbps) |
PS / 2 | 1 (Keyboard) |
USB 2.0 | 10 (6 on back panel, 4 via pin header) |
Ethernet | 10/100 / 1000Mbps (RJ45) |
Cooler | Passive (Optional Low-Noise Fan) |
Windows Vista | Vista premium ready |
In general, here is such a motherboard. As a result of the assembly, everything looks like this (I apologize for the quality, I have a digital camera, but I want to share my joy): The
case fan is quite loud, so I turned it off, but didn’t take it off - it doesn’t interfere.
As a result, I have at home a kind of hybrid of a media center and a working machine. You can watch a movie with pleasure and work without problems. What I wish you.
Something like that. Thanks for attention.