Point of View launches ION nettop mainboards

by Scott Bicheno on 7 May 2009, 17:30

Tags: ION, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Point Of View

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Ion and on

A couple of weeks after details of Zotac's nettop boards featuring NVIDIA ION graphics leaked out, fellow NVIDIA board partner Point of View (POV) has launched a couple of mini-ITX mainboards that couple ION with the single-core Atom 230 and dual core Atom 330 respectively.

There are two SO-DIMM slots, four SATA connections and a PCI-Express 16x slot on these boards intended to be built into nettop style, mini desktop PCs.

Last month, Intel also launched some Nettop boards, but with its own integrated graphics, while ASRock has also joined the ION party.

You can see John Deatherage, Intel's director of product marketing for desktop boards talk exclusively to HEXUS.tv about its new boards here.

POV says both boards will be available this month, but didn't specify price. Here's a piccie.

 

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Posted by Judge Zetsumei - Fri 08 May 2009 01:49
looks good. a proper pci-e slot was one thing the zotac board was missing.
Posted by scaryjim - Fri 08 May 2009 09:58
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…
Posted by kingpotnoodle - Fri 08 May 2009 14:27
scaryjim
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…
Posted by Judge Zetsumei - Sun 10 May 2009 04:18
Yes, for example a TV tuner could go in that slot to make it a good HTPC board.