Asrock Nvidia ION 330 and age of conan

[welsh]

hey
i was thinking of buying a nettop to act as a media centre, and i saw this one for a really low price and it seems to tick all the boxes

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-000-AK&groupid=43&catid=1446&subcat=

was woudering if this would b able to play "age of conan", which has the following requirements

minium
OS: Windows Vista/XP
Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: NVIDIA GeForce 5800 or ATI 9800

recommended
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz (E6600) or better
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2 or better
RAM: 2GB or more

many thanks

[EarthDog]

No chance.

You *may* be able to get away with it on low, but that thing is not at all supposed to play any games outside of web based.

[welsh]

hmmm.. guess the claims about

"This pairing can provide up to 10x faster video encoding performance and fps in games than the CPU alone"

are exaggerated

any idea wot the "Nvidia ION Graphics Processor" is equivlant to ie 256mb graphic card?

[EarthDog]

Well, 10x 2fps is 20fps...but who knows how they tested it (i.e what game, settings).

I think its about as good as any onboard graphics, which generally isnt good. Maybe someone with a little more info will chime in and help you out.

[welsh]

ty for your help, maybe it was to good to be true

[MonkeyMhz]

"This pairing can provide up to 10x faster video encoding performance and fps in games than the CPU alone"


Well thats some what true, since the CPU alone cant do **** for games.

May I suggest you just build a cheapish small form factor PC. It would only cost a bit more and will get you much better specs.

[EarthDog]

ty for your help, maybe it was to good to be trueIm sure their claims are correct, but you just have to find out how they got those numbers. I highly doubt it will be able to play that game though.

[welsh]

your probable right, building my own would be probable the best opition just saw the price and the claims it made - lol

[EarthDog]

You got suckered by their marketing team... ;)

I can run 10x faster than a human (I didnt tell you it was a toddler).



You should even be able to look at the specs you listed and see it doesnt match. But we are always here to help. :)

[welsh]

lol it just confuses me.... cause i read this review (which i think (but not sure is it bigger brother)

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=359&Itemid=69&limit=1&limitstart=10

[EarthDog]

You can see in the link you provided that it is using a 9400m card in that laptop. That, while not a good card, is still likely better than onboard. That is an apples to apples comparison unless your ION has that same card in it, which I dont not know.

[ratbuddy]

You can see in the link you provided that it is using a 9400m card in that laptop. That, while not a good card, is still likely better than onboard. That is an apples to apples comparison unless your ION has that same card in it, which I dont not know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Ion

ION is 9400.

[Bobnova]

A 9400 beats the hell out of GMA950, and is world faster then an atom trying to render alone.

However, an atom is slower then a P4 3ghz (it's more like a 2.2 northwood), so you're out of luck there.

[ratbuddy]

However, an atom is slower then a P4 3ghz (it's more like a 2.2 northwood), so you're out of luck there.

Even the dual core one like he listed?

[Cheator]

A 9400 beats the hell out of GMA950, and is world faster then an atom trying to render alone.

However, an atom is slower then a P4 3ghz (it's more like a 2.2 northwood), so you're out of luck there.

Ratbuddy is right, its a dual core and handles itself decently. This nettop won't impress but it will at least be able to play it

[ratbuddy]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3509&p=3

It should be able to eek out 25-30 frames in AoC at minimum settings, 800x600. Not very impressive but it'll certainly work.

[welsh]

Thanks for all your help,
I am just gonna take a punt on it (try my luck), its is going for a reasonable price - and if the worse comes to the worse I can just put a internal blue ray drive in it and use it as media center. ill let u know how it works out.

If any1 got any test they want to run on it give me a shout

[spike_8585]

Thanks for all your help,
I am just gonna take a punt on it (try my luck), its is going for a reasonable price - and if the worse comes to the worse I can just put a internal blue ray drive in it and use it as media center. ill let u know how it works out.

If any1 got any test they want to run on it give me a shout

Hey, I have been thinking about buying the Acer Revo, which has the same specs...Atom 330 + Ion, 2Gb Ram, etc.
I want to use it as a Torrent server + HTPC for 1080p mkvs.

Do you think you could try to see if you can do both at the same time on your system?

Also, the ASRock says you can overclock it. Does anybody know if you could overclock the Revo? (it is plastic though ;) )

[Joeteck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgAZ67MuaK0

Impressed! Dual core atom...

unless they have another computer hidden, this is pretty darn good!!

[Douken]

Oh wow, ION did came out. It supposedly can run COD 4 with playable frames.