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- Apr 24, 2007
So I was getting a bit tired of the noise from my 775 based mITX machine, and decided to finally try an Ion. Just picked up the parts and put it together today. Anyone looking for a good case for an Ion setup should really give InWin a try.
Dead simple to install all components, high quality construction and lots of space to tuck what little cables there are. Took maybe an hour to put together, then another few hours to figure out how to get 1080p mkv's to play.
As I found out, the Ion alone is just way too underpowered for anything other than avi's without offloading to GPU. CoreAVC and WMC solved that problem though.
Great little machine so far. If the included 80w PSU holds up, I won't be needing another HTPC for quite a while.
Specs:
Board- Zotac IonITX-E-E
CPU- Atom N230
RAM- 2x2GB Gskill DDR2-1000
PSU- 80w included (see pic).
HDD- Seagate 250GB 2.5"
DVD- Samsung Multi Slim
Case- InWin IW-BQ656
Pics:
Thought I'd share, since I am very impressed with this case and with the entire setup now that I have it tweaked to perfection.
Nice and Quiet too.
Dead simple to install all components, high quality construction and lots of space to tuck what little cables there are. Took maybe an hour to put together, then another few hours to figure out how to get 1080p mkv's to play.
As I found out, the Ion alone is just way too underpowered for anything other than avi's without offloading to GPU. CoreAVC and WMC solved that problem though.
Great little machine so far. If the included 80w PSU holds up, I won't be needing another HTPC for quite a while.
Specs:
Board- Zotac IonITX-E-E
CPU- Atom N230
RAM- 2x2GB Gskill DDR2-1000
PSU- 80w included (see pic).
HDD- Seagate 250GB 2.5"
DVD- Samsung Multi Slim
Case- InWin IW-BQ656
Pics:
Thought I'd share, since I am very impressed with this case and with the entire setup now that I have it tweaked to perfection.
Nice and Quiet too.
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