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    News - Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

    NVIDIA?s integrated graphics for the Atom processor gathers momentum with another board launch.
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    Re: News - Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

    looks good. a proper pci-e slot was one thing the zotac board was missing.
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    Re: News - Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

    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...
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    Re: News - Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    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...
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    Re: News - Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

    Yes, for example a TV tuner could go in that slot to make it a good HTPC board.
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