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NVIDIA?s integrated graphics for the Atom processor gathers momentum with another board launch.
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NVIDIA?s integrated graphics for the Atom processor gathers momentum with another board launch.
looks good. a proper pci-e slot was one thing the zotac board was missing.
Nice - particularly like the x16 slot - although I thought the whole point of ION was that the integrated graphics were good enough to make a proper graphics card unnecessary ;) perhaps it's for one of those new OCZ 1TB hard drives...
EDIT: On second thoughts, does anyone know if ION supports the various hybrid graphics technologies NVidia touts? Their website is, unfortunately, not very forthcoming on the matter :( but if it does it would make the x16 slot make a lot more sense...
Second edit: apparently the 9300 / 9400 desktop boards support GeForce Boost but *not* Hybrid Power, so I guess that the most the ION chipset could do is GeForce Boost - and would you really want to bother with an 8400/8500 series graphics card on top of ION graphics? Probably not...
Having the x16 slot makes it more flexible, I would hope that it's use is not limited to graphics cards... RAID cards or any x1 card working in it would be useful...Quote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
Yes, for example a TV tuner could go in that slot to make it a good HTPC board.