Thanks for the responses guys! I'll pass on the ASRock unit.
Too bad you can't get it without the worthless wireless board. My application would be much different, as I would only use it as a media tank. If were me I would probably go with the Zoltec Motherboard and put my own together using the case below and not bother with optical drive. Interesting.One limitation I don't like is only 5.1 channel analog out.That's all I use now though, really its not that big a thing.
I have one of ays HD (mkv, blu ray, etc) perfectly.no hic-cups or anything. The PC will do light CAD I guess, but a graphics card will transform it. Catchup will ya, the metric system is 200 years old.īut back to the topic. And I have to work in inches for the client.god that's CRAP. Gees it wasn't fun back then, people bag windows, but they forget what DOS was like.dunno which was worse, HP-Unix or DOS. Maybe AutoCAD R10.that went ok on a 386.ĭOS version? Isn't the ION Nvidia graphics? I only need something to surf the net, play back movies and do some word processing and light cad work. Link Posted: Fri 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: ASRock ION 330
Plays 1080p bluray rips no problemo, no hardware accel, using XBMC. I looked into these things for my TV HTPC, and ended up building the cheapest "proper" PC I could (microATX mobo, E5200 dual core, passive Nvidia 8500GT graphics card, 2GB ram). (I do CAD for a living, UG NX/ProE/Solidworks and FEA and a little CAM. You'll need a chunky DISCRETE graphics card at the bare minimum. What do you guys think?įor SD it would be fine.For blu-ray and HD Video.I think I would go with something a little more powerful. I want to get away from having the big box cpu on the floor.
ASRock ION 330 NVIDIA ION 2 x 240Pin NVIDIA ION graphics Black Barebone - RetailĬome with Dual-Core CPU, 2GB memory, 320GB HD, slim DVD