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ASRock ION 330 as a media PC – Video

The ASRock ION 330 is a small desktop PC with a low power Atom processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. The other day I published a fairly detailed review of this nettop, looking at its capabilities as a gaming computer and as a PC for everday use. But as several people pointed out, I didn’t delve extensively into its capabilities as…

December 27th, 2009, 11:35 am by Brad Linder | 16 Comments

ASRock ION 330 dual core w/NVIDIA ION nettop review

The ASRock ION 330 nettop is a small desktop PC that’s not much wider than a typical optical disc drive. It’s a bit chunkier than some nettops from MSI, Asus, and other companies, but unlike many of those models, the ION 330 actually makes room for a DVD burner as well as a 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330 dual core CPU,…

December 25th, 2009, 2:33 pm by Brad Linder | 19 Comments

CULV, ION, or dual core Atom with ION?

[/caption] I happen to find myself with a number of rather of interesting computers at the moment with a nice mix of the latest and greatest in low power, decent performance specs. So I spent much of the afternoon running benchmarks on the following computers: HP Mini 311 notebook with NVIDIA ION graphics and a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU ASRock…

December 11th, 2009, 4:34 pm by Brad Linder | 46 Comments

Unboxing the ASRock ION 330 nettop – Video

The ASRock ION 330 nettop features a dual core Intel Atom 330 CPU and NVIDIA ION graphics. It weighs just under 4 pounds, and is just barely large enough to hold a hard drive, DVD burner, and a few sticks of RAM. NVIDIA recently sent me a demo unit to test out. The company recently launched an updated model with…

November 13th, 2009, 4:58 pm by Brad Linder | 9 Comments

Second generation ASRock nettop is even more home theater-ready

ASRock has been putting out tiny, low power nettops with NVIDIA ION graphics for about as long as anyone… which is to say for a few months. Now the company is introducing an updated model called the ASRock ION 330HT-BD. Like the first model, the new computer can handle HD and Blu-Ray video while using very little power thanks to…

October 29th, 2009, 10:25 am by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

More NVIDIA ION powered PCs coming soon

Acer may have been the first company to announce a tiny nettop desktop computer sporting the new NVIDIA ION platform, but it won’t be the last. The ION platform combines a low power Intel Atom CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor to offer greatly improved graphics performance in some applications. The two latest companies to announce ION powered…

April 29th, 2009, 8:11 am by Brad Linder | 5 Comments