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Product ReviewsZOTAC IONITX-F-E Intel Atom 330 (1.6GHz, dual-core) Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
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 Rating: Review Date: 05/04/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/16/13 |
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The on-board Atom processor overclocks extremely simply to 2.1 GHz and is incredibly stable at this clock speed. CPU temp is acceptable even when overclocked, but the GPU can get a bit toasty (load at around 70C). The ion gpu can be overclocked also. I was in a position to get a 20% overclock with it.With the overclocked settings, the Aeon-Stark skin for XBMC runs quiet smoothly. Google "ion heatsink mod" if you want to improve cooling on the cpu and gpu. The atom cpu is incredibly weak, even the dual core model. This isn't an challenge if you're working with this as a house theater Computer, due to the fact the ION GPU should be carrying out most of the heavy lifting and has some respectable processing energy.However, if you want to do workplace function with this system or some light gaming, the CPU will hold you back.Following overclocking the board, I've attempted playing Heroes of Newerth. When playing at 1920x1200 and medium settings, I averaged 25 fps at the start off of games, but the framerate would dip into single digits when issues got hectic. To say the least, I felt it was a extremely poor gaming knowledge bordering on unplayable. Minimizing the resolution and settings had quite little effect on the FPS. Like I mentioned just before I believe the GPU is decent, but the CPU is holding it back in some applications This is a excellent board for an HTPC. It offers just enough graphical and cpu energy to play any of my video files when also operating my media library browser (XBMC) smoothly. It also is quiet small, enabling you to construct a home theatre Computer that's smaller sized than an Xbox 360 or PS3.That mentioned, it is lousy for common desktop use. If you are creating a desktop technique, this board offers extremely poor efficiency for the price tag. I'd recommend that you go with a common develop like an athlon ii, phenom ii, or core i3. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/14/13 |
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Purchased with being a media center in mind, and am incredibly pleased. The video excellent and capability is impecable for the price. I have not seen the hardware struggle however with something I have thrown at it (DVD's, Big Installations, 1 month to 1 year old video games). None. I would like it to have Virtualization, but I can deal with no. The BIOS is function rich with capability although. With the appropriate cooling, you can in all probability handle to pull alot more out of the tiny atom. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/08/13 |
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TBH this is a great motherboard all round, but.. Overview web page says "Fully N compliant" as properly as saying "A/B/G/N" compatible. The atheros wifi on the pc does NOT support 5ghz. This is implied by fully N compliant. In addition, no 5ghz signifies no A networking at all- that's flat misrepresentation of truth, no possibility that I didn't interpret properly. two.4ghz N will almost certainly be sufficient and if not I can run gigabit, it's just a pain. Nonetheless, when it's advertised and not there it's worth 2 eggs. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/06/13 |
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So far this board has run particularly cool. I don't have a heat-sink fan and my one case fan is on the lowest setting.It streams from Hulu, Netflix, and ESPN three excellent, as properly as any other websites I throw at it without a hiccup. The wireless isn't the greatest, but updating all of the drivers does enhance it a lot (still not fantastic though).I get a little lag when navigating through WMC, but I haven't attempted tweaking anything however to get rid of it. I don't DVR, I just stream on the net content material, and this board shines at the job. I constructed it with an Intel SSD so it boots Windows 7 in beneath 5 seconds. I'm in the browser prior to my DVD player can even finish loading.I've had the board running considering that mid-December of 2010. And because then have employed it almost every single day for about two.5 hours per day.I commonly don't shut the Pc down, just let it go into sleep mode on its own, and I haven't had any problems so far.My case is an Antec ISK 300-65 which is solid steel and has really good airflow, not to mention an external power supply. I could in all probability go totally fan-less if I set up the box in "tower" mode, as convection would offer enough cooling. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/03/13 |
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Outstanding attributes, HDMI output, runs cool and quiet in a cabinet with mediocre airflow. Tidy board with clearly marked plugs. Works tremendous as a HTPC though also serving media to 3 other computer systems in the house. ƒ gig RAM, 512k reserved for the GPU) Gave up on trying to get the resolution correct (connecting to 46" LCD tv) working with Ubuntu, even with most current drivers. Downloaded Windows 7 drivers and employed the adjustment feature to ultimately get it right. Not intuitive for newbies. I ended up running Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate for video resolution motives, but Ubuntu had no predicament discovering and supporting all of the hardware. With the kids watching movies or listening to music from the challenging drive, no concerns at all watching H.264 encoded films working with WMC. I'm tremendously pleased with this system. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/29/13 |
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Almost everything installed and worked correct out of the box - even loading and operating Windows 7 with no needing to load device & video drivers. Impressive, to say the least, thinking of the monitor I utilised to carry out the set up was working with the HDMI interface. None |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/03/13 |
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Great board general in addition to a few difficulties adressed in the cons, but runs quite cool, OCed to 2.0ghz with no problems, wireless works wonderful, truly strong really feel to it. If you pair it with 2gb 800 it runs wonderful genuinely don't want more result in the processor is not supperb u know.Media Center in win7 with Netflix runs flawless. 1080p video no dilemma with the proper software program. There are only a few issues with the board but not seriously adequate to loose a point. One factor is that the board does not have a mic input on the inside so u can't hook up a mic plug that in the front of most situations. In win7 VLC does not run effectively at all. I'm not positive what it is but it can't run high def at all. But arcsoft media theater runs flawless All round I am amazed by the size efficiency ratio. Does anything it's created for and plus someRuns StarCraft 2 beta on medium settings on my 32inch at 43fps avarageAmazing!!!!!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/15/12 |
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Installed with 4GB RAM and Windows 7. Runs excellent and is much more snappy than I had expected. This MB is in fact replacing my property Pc because I don't do any gaming. I wanted some thing quiet, cool, yet strong adequate for office form applications Folks who get in touch with their gaming computer a "Rig" Excellent for a true residence workplace Pc or even a Windows Media Center. I was extremely shocked by the capabilities of the Atom 330! |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/13/12 |
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-- strong CPU/GPU combo good sufficient for win7-- wonderful construct top quality-- tiny type factor, run cool-- constructed-in wifi-- PCIEx16 slot for future expansion on-board RAID controller conflicts with add-on PCI-E SATA RAID card (sil3132). The sil3132 bios (whether SATA or RAID) only can be loaded when the on-board RAID function is disabled. This suggests if you want to boot from the add-on card, you'd have to turn off the on-board RAID (still operates as SATA although). This appears to be a zotac or nvidia bios concern, due to the fact extremely handful of sil3132 users have complained about the PCI alternative rom conflict ahead of. I only have a sil3132 PCI-E card made by SYBA. Don't know if JMR363 or Via chipset RAID card performs. could have built in blue tooth |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/24/12 |
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Modest form aspect, fanless, HDMI, eSATA, Gig LAN, nVidia. Lots of BIOS selections. Agree with other posts that the Azure WiFi is garbage, unless you have line-of-sight. 1 floor down, 20 feet max, got 2 bars and continual drops. Replaced with Intel N mini-pcie card from NewEgg and got five bars, no drops in the exact same spot. Caveat is the board doesn't have screws for half-height mini-pcie, so I had to rig a clip to properly seat the card. No FireWire. The I/O shield/plate is about the least expensive I've ever come across; thin with sharp edges and effortlessly warps. No major deal soon after it's installed.Built up in a Silverstone LC19 case with plenty of vents, but idles around 79C -tiny on the hot side for idle. Built as a Win7 Media Center HTPC with an Hauppage WnTVHR-2250. Performs great once I replaced the WLAN adapter, but a tiny worried about processor temps.Also wonder about Zotac support, as most drivers are from 2009. nVidia rocks, though. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/20/12 |
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This board has every thing you need for a nice little HTPC. It was easy to put together with the case I purchased. The cabling was fairly regular and simple. The motherboard is new enough my old copy of Windows XP wouldn't operate. I had to slipstream SP2 and SP3 into the XP disk and then factors worked fine. The very first board newegg shipped was dead on arrival. Luckily, neweg shipped a properly operating 1 out to me and I had my HTPC up and running soon immediately after. I wanted to use Ubuntu, but for a HTPC, there's not NetFlix streaming help. Also undesirable, Ubuntu installed effortlessly, and I was using VirtualBox with a WinXP image and it all worked great, but playing HD video via a virtual implementation like that doesn't operate. Not adequate horsepower in the machine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/09/12 |
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Installed smoothly with WIN XP. No difficulties hence far. Web surfing and video streaming was very smooth. Unlike other people posted, Wi-Fi connection was superior. Very impress with this smaller package. Outstanding alternative for a new HTPC. Directions for the optional (may not require it) fan. For individuals that had a challenging time figuring out the diagram, location fan on best of the heatsink (center) and screw in place. There are NO holes (that one particular would expect) to screws in spot, the grill will accept the screws!! Aside from that, it's an excellent combo board (and deal from newegg). Quite swift delivery, I Adore NEWEGG!!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/01/12 |
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Does what it says on the box. The rebate is a scam. Ignore the rebate when comparison buying simply because you will almost certainly in no way see a penny of it.I took a possibility on Zotac, and whilst the hardware has however to fail me so far, their customer service surely has. Manufacturer Response:Hi Nill,I apologize for your knowledge relating to your rebate and with our client service division. ZOTAC USA does fulfill rebates. If there is anything I can help you with your case, please let me know. You can reach me at Patti@zotacusa.com. Thanks! |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/21/12 |
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As noted elsewhere, runs awesome, handles HD video, S/PDIF, so it makes a great HTPC. With NO fans - no CPU fan, no situation fan, and no energy provide fan - mine idles at 55 oC and plays video at 75 oC, which is nicely inside spec. Tiny situation fan drops temps by 30 oC. Ubuntu lucid recognized almost everything out of the box. The wireless card comes with only a single of two antennae installed, and it's close to worthless. Adding a second antenna, scavenged from an old laptop boosted wireless speed from 150 kb/s to 108 Mb/s. Appear for one particular with an "MC" connector. On linux, you could will need to set up compat-wireless or wireless-backports. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/04/12 |
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Seamless to set upSpeedy adequateION chipset!Comes with tiny optional fan for the heatsink. wireless N is not wonderful.. I had to revert drivers back and worked "ok". Updated drivers were terribad. Ok, if you are employing this as a Media Center (HTPC) personal computer, you ought to do the following...1. install coreavc specialist (บ and worth it)two. set up media center classicthree. update to most up-to-date ION drivers from nVidia's internet sitefour. Sit back and get pleasure from a lot smoother playback |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/30/12 |
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Utilized this mobo to built two multimedia education PCs running Win 7 feeding a couple of big LCD displays. The OS installed rapidly and without having a sweat. Wireless G/N performed appropriately. The video is quite sharp, but does not fatigue. Heat sinks were cool to the touch through 24 hour burn-in testing at 85 percent CPU load. Zero issues right after six months operations. Zotac ought to look at providing this board with a PCIe slot... General quite impressed with this board. I am acquiring three a lot more for home media servers and a firewall application...Highly encouraged |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/19/12 |
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nVidia ION chipset functions wonderful! Running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit with most current drivers. No complications loading OS or finding drivers. Plays 1080p video streaming wirelessly from my server without a hiccup. Big heat sink assists maintain points cool, and consists of a CPU fan. Has 3 SATA ports and handles 4GB RAM! Did I mention the integrated wireless? Great package! As a different individual mentioned, make positive you have a 20 or a 20Ʋ energy connector. Working with this for HTPC. Bought as combo. What a fantastic deal with only a single complaint... The case in the combo. The fans are loud, and it doesn't accomodate the PCIe slot. I read the descriptions, so it wasn't an issue, but it would have been good to have. Taking into consideration receiving a different before the sale ends! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/12/12 |
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Very good board with a lot of attributes.I was a bit concerned with somebody else's review saying wireless range being too short but luckily, it wasn't the situation for me. Built with Apex case and the only issue I had was the location of the optional CPU fan that comes with the mobo. P/S was positioned proper on prime of CPU heatsink and I had to spot the fan off centered employing only two screws. It isn't seriously a con for this mobo nor Apex situation. Would get again with various circumstances till I locate the great match. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/29/12 |
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Employed this to replacea lesser ITX board that I use for a SAN operating Windows 2008 R2 Storage Server.... functions fine for that and the ION chipset is a bit of a enhance for the disk IO i've found.You can moderately OC the Atom CPU as well, which is nice. Wifi is bunk. It is detected, but wont connect to anything. From what I gather the card in common is a P-O-S, so I am pondering seeking at a seperate Intel dual band wireless N card. Not that I want it for the box, but it would be nice if that function worked. I am not sure if the problem is the car, or the reality I am using 2008 R2 (which at its core is the similar as Windows 7 so it ought to be supported). |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/09/12 |
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Tiny, uncomplicated to place together. Utilizes desktop DIMMs rather than Laptop SoDIMMs. Regardless of what a few other individuals have stated, this just didn't play Netflix streams nicely, at least on Windows 7 x64. Netflix streams on Pc regrettably don't use the GPU at all, and this Atom, despite the fact that it's the finest Atom, seriously can't preserve up. I ended up employing this as a WHS and placing the Athlon X2 to HTPC duty. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/24/12 |
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Small Form Element.Fantastic build top quality.Wireless included. I purchased this board with the intent to generate a smaller and portable gaming technique. Due to the fact I have heard quite very good testimonials of the Atom N330 chip, and that this Zotac board had a x16 PCI-E slot, I was hoping for some low-cost, and compact gaming goodness. I had installed the newest drivers from Nvidia, and teamed the board with a Geforce 8800GTX card. I started to play Battlefield BC2, and seasoned very a bit of lag even on the single player campaign. I can only assume it is due to the CPU efficiency. I am organizing on picking up the Core 2 Zotac board rather. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/11/12 |
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Size, Cost, WIFI, Heat, HDMI, None so far... This is an awesome motherboard. I'm really pleased with the efficiency of the Atom 330 and Nvidia Ion. It doesn't get that hot with the heatsink fan, and every thing worked perfectly on set up. It was seriously straightforward to place this in my mini-itx case, with 2 hdd's and an optical drive. I didn't finish up working with the PCI slot due to the fact it seemed a small cramped in a tiny case, but that's not the mobo's fault. Pair this with a case like the Apex mi-008 for a actually slick shoe-box sized computer! |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/09/12 |
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Little, quiet, feature wealthy... decent choices on BIOS Would have preferred a fanless capability, but it just runs as well hot with out the fan. The wifi is really bad and seems flaky even with AP nearby.No built in bluetooth. Genuinely require to think about how you are going to transfer files to this process for whatever media center suggestions you have. The poor wifi will either need a tough wire or new/different wifi attachment to get excellent efficiency...Given that my strategy was to use a distinct machine on the network for file storage I ended up tough wiring into a repeater just to get decent connectivity. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/17/12 |
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I'm using this board in a hybrid HTPC/centralized Media Center DVR machine driving a number of Xbox/Linksys extenders. So far it is operating great and handles almost everything I've thrown at it devoid of breaking a sweat. Although the board supports 4GB RAM and the CPU will run a 64-bit OS, due to the processor's 32-bit memory addressing limitation only ӯ.25GB of 4GB installed RAM will be usable. |
works properly but, doesn't matter how very good it performs, if they don't send you the ษ rebate. Yes, Nice way of conducting organization! I'll consider twice ahead of purchasing a ZOTAC product. Manufacturer Response:Hi Chico,Sorry to hear you have not received your rebate! Please submit an inquiry to rebate@zotacusa.com (or submit a Help Ticket) and a representative will be content to assist you. Thanks!External Hyperlink(s): Support Ticket Submission|