Two New Ions: ASUS AT3N7A-I and ASRock Ion 330
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 28, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Power Consumption
Comparing power between these systems is a difficult task since none of them use the same power supply. The ASRock and Zotac systems use their own external DC power supplies, while the ASUS relies on our standard testbed ATX PSU. The Zotac PSU is a 90W unit while ASRock uses a 65W adapter. The higher wattage Zotac PSU actually ends up being more efficient than the ASRock unit, drawing 23.8W at idle and 30.2W under load. The ASRock system draws nearly as much at idle as the Zotac does under load, but both are well under 40W.
Since we’re stuck using a traditional desktop PSU, the ASUS board draws significantly more power. Even when we went down to a 300W unit we still saw power consumption above 40W. Without any specific low wattage mini-ITX PSUs on hand, this was the best we could muster.
Technically Zotac wins here as well, although things could change if we had a very efficient low wattage mini-ITX PSU.
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eversteegt - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - link
Hello Anandtech,First of all: Great article! Based on this article (and a similar one on Legit reviews) I bought the Asus AT3N7A board.
Unfortunately, I am very disappointed with it. Despite their statement to you, it still has the faulty and whining fan, so the wrong one DID make it to the retail versions. To make things more nasty: Their "valued customer" tech support is utterly refusing to help me out. They state that a new fan DOES NOT exist and I should stop complaining (apparently, the think Anandtech and Legit reviews are telling lies).
I can't help hoping this is just a miscommunication/misunderstanding between your contacts and the info not making it to the tech support. But for now, I have had it with Asus and their beautiful lies.
Otherwise, the board performance very good, but the Fan and lousy tech support just spoil all the fun :(
gnif - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - link
When the XBMC tests were done you said you used the Live CD... is is possible to have some performance tests done on the latest SVN version...I patched a major bug in XBMC about 4 months ago that caused huge slowdowns on all systems, that especially affected embedded systems such as the ION.
See: http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/6761">http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/6761
I would love to have an ION to test on, but I just cant afford it.