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- TREX6662k5 - 2009-05-26 22:29
grajea Wrote:In addition, mini-itx.com have this board out of stock, they claim to have more in 1-2 weeks.
People who have pre-ordered the Atom330 board get their items shipped on the 27th May. So I expect my delivery to be made on the 29th May if its a inland company.
I ordered the Atom330 bundle, 4GB Ram, no hard drive. = £284.05
Aleutia H1 Deluxe, 4GB Ram, No HDD, No OS = £326.60
- grajea - 2009-05-26 23:00
Quote:Aleutia H1 Deluxe, 4GB Ram, No HDD, No OS = £284.00+ VAT (15%) = £326.60
(but same price with os installed)
£42 more expensive than mini-itx.com (the assembling work?)
Please, report your experience with this toy. ¿what type of disk will you use for the system? ¿CF card with sata adaptor, ssd, 2.5" sata disk, ...?
- TREX6662k5 - 2009-05-26 23:19
I have a 500gb 2.5" hard drive around that I plan to use with it. Will store OS, music and my video library. It won't take too long for me to fill that up but the case used (both mini-itx and aleutia) can take 2 2.5" drives.
Though I maybe switch to PXEBooting at one point.
- snoxbox - 2009-05-27 00:43
grajea Wrote:what type of disk will you use for the system? ¿CF card with sata adaptor, ssd, 2.5" sata disk, ...?
I'm tossing up between a CF card and a USB stick. Any particular reason to choose one over the other?
- althekiller - 2009-05-27 01:27
I'd replace that useless wifi card with a pci-e SSD.
- grajea - 2009-05-27 08:29
althekiller Wrote:I'd replace that useless wifi card with a pci-e SSD.Or a dvb-t video receiver ....
With this option and wake from usb, it could be perfect for an htpc with xbmc+mythtv
- medicineuk - 2009-05-28 23:06
The ASRock ION 330 came out today http://www.asrock.com/nettop/spec/ION%20330.asp and I couldn't resist ordering it. I'm not sure how much it is else where but in the UK it retails at about £300 inc VAT give or take £10. I ended up ordering it from here http://www.zonetronics.com/ but it is slightly cheaper from this site http://wcs-hosting.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21
Hopefully I will get my hands of the little bugger in the next couple of days
. It doesn't come with an OS installed but I'm going to install windows 7 as it looks like some progress has been made on DXVA http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=33323&page=12 and I would rather install an OS that I'm familiar with. The only thing that might be worth noting is from what I have read it looks like the machine does not come WiFi. This isn't a huge issue for me as I have a couple of wireless USB sticks hanging around but it might be an extra cost for others.
I will report back after I have had a proper play with it.
- >>X<< - 2009-06-02 15:26
medicineuk Wrote:The ASRock ION 330 came out today http://www.asrock.com/nettop/spec/ION%20330.asp and I couldn't resist ordering it. I'm not sure how much it is else where but in the UK it retails at about £300 inc VAT give or take £10. I ended up ordering it from here http://www.zonetronics.com/ but it is slightly cheaper from this site http://wcs-hosting.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=21
Hopefully I will get my hands of the little bugger in the next couple of days
The only thing that might be worth noting is from what I have read it looks like the machine does not come WiFi. This isn't a huge issue for me as I have a couple of wireless USB sticks hanging around but it might be an extra cost for others.
I will report back after I have had a proper play with it.
Do you have your Asrock yet because I'm very interested to here how it performs with 1080p not just with XBMC but obviously that as well
Be nice if you could try XBMC live see how it does with VDPAU acceleration, would have been nice to know how well it performed using CoreAVC and CUDA on 1080p but as your using win 7 I doubt it would work as CoreAVC doesn't officially support win 7
Any feedback in general would be great
- Starstream - 2009-06-02 15:34
I've ordered an Asrock Ion 330 unit from here so I should have it hopefully in 2-3 days.
I'll post my impressions of it with XBMC Live once I get it.
- >>X<< - 2009-06-02 15:52
Starstream Wrote:I've ordered an Asrock Ion 330 unit from here so I should have it hopefully in 2-3 days.
I'll post my impressions of it with XBMC Live once I get it.
If they go out of stock now I'll blame you
Nice company they have 100% rating on ebay from 11359 customers
Look forward to hearing how it performs especially with Aeon