by Rajinder Gill on 8/26/2010 9:00:00 AM
Posted in Motherboards , ZOTAC , Mini ITX , Intel , nvidia
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WinRAR 3.9 x64

This benchmark compresses our AT workload consisting of a main folder that contains 954MB of files in 15 subfolders. The result is a file approximately 829MB in size.

Application Performance - WinRAR 3.90 x64 - CPU @ Stock

 

Bibble 5.0

We utilize Bibble Labs' Bibble 5 v2 to convert 50 RAW image files into full size JPEG images with the program's default settings. This program is fully multithreaded and multi-core aware.

Application Performance - Bibble 5 Pro

The lack of Hyper Threading and frequency bandwidth makes any kind of crunching tasks painfully slow on ION. Having said that, the Celeron is definitely the lesser of two evils here, showing a marked improvement in performance over the Atom.

 

File Transfer to USB

In this test we use Sharkoon's USB QuickPort with a 1TB Western Digital hard drive and transfer a 1GB file from a 1TB HDD connected to the Intel PCH.

1GB File Transfer to USB 2.0 - Core i5 661 CPU

USB performance is not quite as fast as what a good H55 based motherboard can manage, but 39 seconds is quite repectable in this test, as we've tested a number of socket 1156 motherboards that can't break the 45 second mark.

Gaming Performance Final Words: Better, but not by enough...
Zotac Only! by Ipatinga on Thursday, August 26, 2010
"To Zotac’s credit, we found the IONITX-P-E stable and functional for everyday use..."

Yes... for Zotac, when it works, its credit (or a Plus... since even bricked bios Zotac does not take away from it´s download list and solving the problem takes forever).

For other manufacturers... a motherboard that works stable and is fully functional is mandatory (even though some forget that on the launch... and focus on overclock... shame :( )

Still, Zotac does a lot of Mini ITX and it´s good to see many options (hope the competition will catch up). Price wise... well....
Ipatinga
Passive cooling? by hybrid2d4x4 on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Thanks for the review. Since the power consumption is in similar if not better than Atom, have you guys tried running the board without the fan? Did you test what the temps are like (with the fan)?
It'd be sweet if you could run this thing passively cooled with the stock heatsink...
hybrid2d4x4
ffdshow includes a truehd transform filter.
so the lack of bitstreaming doesn't mean you can't enjoy a truehd track.
mindbomb
Geforec 9400 by aguilpa1 on Thursday, August 26, 2010
I wish we could evolve past this 9400 or 9400 derivitives
aguilpa1
RE: Geforec 9400 by DigitalFreak on Thursday, August 26, 2010
There's no reason for Nvidia to come out with another Core2 / Atom chipset. Core2 is a dead end. Both Atom and the Core i CPUs use DMI or QPI for the system bus, and Nvidia doesn't have a license for either of those.
DigitalFreak
RE: RE: Geforec 9400 by Taft12 on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Oh there is plenty of reason for Nvidia to come out with a chipset for this platform. Too bad Uncle Monopoly says no.
Taft12
RE: Geforec 9400 by DigitalFreak on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Boo hoo
DigitalFreak
RE: Geforec 9400 by BlendMe on Friday, August 27, 2010
They do have a newer and better chipset, the 320M, which seems to be an Apple exclusive. It is a pretty powerful chip, a least compared to the 9400M. The 320M is what the 9400M was 2 year ago. The absolute minimum and you should not go lower than that.
BlendMe
What's that? by BlendMe on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Hey look! It's a Mac mini! Sort of...
BlendMe
egad by Shadowmaster625 on Thursday, August 26, 2010
Worst idea ever? Why not compare to a pentium G9650? Naw... that would make toooo much sense. Anyway I'd suspect this ion system to be worse than even a G9650, which is undoubtedly cheaper.
Shadowmaster625
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