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    News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Dual-core Atom, second-gen NVIDIA ION, USB 3.0 and built-in Wireless N. Oh, and it's passively cooled, too.
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Seems odd that there appears to be space for them to extend the PCI-ex slot to a mechanical 16x (even if they don't have lanes for electrical 16x) but it is just blank space. Also, 2 SATA ports seems extremely stingy for an HTPC - optical drive and HD, yes, but that leaves nothing for expansion (HTPCs are known for getting very full data-wise). I know I use one drive as an OS/drivers drive, and one for recorded TV.

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    I'm pleasantly surprised by the low price of this, i can see it being a good seller.

    Add a Mini-ITX case (from £31)
    160GB 7200rpm 2.5" drive (£38).
    Cheap DVD writer (£14)
    2 Gb RAM (£40)

    So for £250 plus OS, this could be a potent HTPC as well as being low powered and near-silent.

    Edit: Although it's true that a 160GB drive would get full very quickly, so this £62 500GB model might be more appropriate.
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    For £125 to incorporate most of a system that is pretty damn good!

    Fit that in a decent case like an Antec ISK-300, add 2GB RAM, DVD and a 2.5" drive, you've got a small, quiet and neat HTPC for ~£300, + £100 for a slim blu-ray drive. Not bad... almost makes me want to dump my huge Antec Fusion, but the full height cards and extra power (even of the lowly Celeron E3300 I use) is enough for me to keep it.

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    ASUS product page here.
    Intel NM10 chipset info here.

    I was looking to see if this was just a rebranded 945 chipset or not, however Intel states
    is 85% smaller than the traditional two device chipset used in the prior generation
    So it looks to be a proper new chipset.
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    nice, but the thing is, my current HTPC erm, works.

    Until something above 1080p comes out, I have no need!
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Quote Originally Posted by MSIC View Post
    ASUS product page here.
    Intel NM10 chipset info here.

    I was looking to see if this was just a rebranded 945 chipset or not, however Intel states
    So it looks to be a proper new chipset.
    Yeah it is, I have an Intel D510MO board and the NM10 doesn't even need a heatsink it uses so little power. It's the black square to the right of the large heatsink here: http://www.logicsupply.com/images/ph...o_pic1_big.jpg

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    Was ready to come in here and flame about pricing - however, I personally think the price is great.
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    I prefer the previous board with 4 SATA, 2 SATA is just plain DUMB..

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    What no Bluetooth?
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    A thing of beauty, no doubt, and my HTPC is a bit bulky.

    However, I hate onboard realtec. Always goes wrong for me and I end up with only one speaker working on stereo setup.

    What's the silver thing at the back, top middle? Looks like ports for water cooling, but can't be, surely? Is it a video interface?

    For me, the question of whether an HTPC mobo/ CPU is quick enough is the following: How quickly will it boot to Windows? I run Media Browser, with all media streamed though gigabit network from a server. At present, I have an SSD in the HTPC, which helps it boot nice and quick. How quickly would one of these Atom boards boot FULLY to windows, do you think? Vista and 7?
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Quote Originally Posted by Shooty* View Post
    What's the silver thing at the back, top middle? Looks like ports for water cooling, but can't be, surely?
    I was thinking the same thing at first but it looks like the end of the heatpipes, maybe so you can connect them to the case to draw heat away?

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Quote Originally Posted by Methanoid View Post
    I prefer the previous board with 4 SATA, 2 SATA is just plain DUMB..
    I've been annoyed at Intel for quite a while on this one. Atom boards would seem perfect for homebuilt NAS's, but apparently the NM10 only provides 2 SATA ports. As I understand it, any more than 2 & they're from an additional chip.

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Same here, and since they don't support port multipliers your only choice of expansion is a PCI(e) card but most mini-ITX boards only have 1 and on top of that a lot if not most small HTPC cases won't accept expansion cards...

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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Then you need a Jetway JNF96FL-510-LF + 4 port SATA add-in board

    OK, not ION so not as good for an HTPC, but great for a NAS box...

    (n.b. I assume those two items are compatible, although they're not specifically listed as such... )
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    Re: News - ASUS AT5IONT-I could be the mother of all mini-ITX HTPC boards

    Quote Originally Posted by watercooled View Post
    Same here, and since they don't support port multipliers your only choice of expansion is a PCI(e) card but most mini-ITX boards only have 1 and on top of that a lot if not most small HTPC cases won't accept expansion cards...
    It's a bit nasty but you could always wire up the optical drive using a dongle to an internal USB port, just needs a few unusual bits of cable...

    Then you have enough SATA ports for 2 hard disks, which is as many as you'll ever get in an ITX case anyway! (The Antec ISK-300 holds 2x 2.5" and a slim optical for example).

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