Zotac's Ion: The World's First mini-ITX Ion Board
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 12, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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PAR2 Multithreaded Archive Recovery Performance
Par2 is an application used for reconstructing downloaded archives. It can generate parity data from a given archive and later use it to recover the archive
Chuchusoft took the source code of par2cmdline 0.4 and parallelized it using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks 2.1. The result is a version of par2cmdline that can spawn multiple threads to repair par2 archives. For this test we took a 708MB archive, corrupted nearly 60MB of it, and used the multithreaded par2cmdline to recover it. The scores reported are the repair and recover time in seconds.
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Sony Vegas Pro 8: Blu-ray Disc Creation
Although technically a test simulating the creation of a Blu-ray disc, the majority of the time in our Sony Vegas Pro benchmark is spend encoding the 25Mbps MPEG-2 video stream and not actually creating the Blu-ray disc itself.
Sorenson Squeeze: FLV Creation
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WinRAR - Archive Creation
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ahmshaegar - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
Greater power consumption = more heat. Where's that energy going to go?marshylucas - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
You were faster, I was about to reply something similar.Thumbs up for the fanless design!
Jeffk464 - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
Yes, but my laptop is very quiet, even with being severely limited on space for a heat sink and fan. If you had more rooms to put a large heat sink on it with a large low rpm fan, I think it would be near silent.trabpukcip - Friday, May 15, 2009 - link
A laptop does not make the best HTPC though. Connectivity is too limited and is generally inconvenient.GeorgeH - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
"a single Gigabit Ethernet port (just like on the Intel boards)"Actually, only the D945GCLF2 has Gigabit Ethernet. The D945GCLF is stuck with 10/100, which is kind of a deal killer for me.
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
Thanks for the correction :)Take care,
Anand
DrLudvig - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
I'm confused here, most places it says that the hole ION thing is a 9400 chip, while some other places, like now here, says 9300?What is it really?
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
The 9300 and 9400 are the same chip, the difference is GPU clock. Take a look at the table on this page:http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3432">http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3432
The GF9300 on the Zotac board actually runs a bit slower than the stock GeForce 9300. It runs its core at 450MHz and its shaders at 1.1GHz instead of 450/1.2.
Take care,
Anand
Badkarma - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
Anand,Can you please confirm/deny if the Zotac Ion boards support wake-on-usb? The Zotac 9300 mini-itx board does not support wake-on-usb and therefore powering the system on from standby from the MCE remote does not work without physical workarounds.
Thanks.
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - link
I'm out of the office right now but I'll try it this weekend :) Drop me an email to remind me if you don't see something by the end of next week :)Take care,
Anand