[Cocophone]

Has anybody purchased this motherboard?
AT3IONT-I DELUXE
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=iHWm73RqE6MCmCtw

It's powered by a AC/DC power brick.

Looks like add some ram and a SSD and your ready to go.

[enderzero]

Wow this is a great little package. Buy a case and find some Ram and a HDD. Plus its fanless and has PCI-E x16 expansion. Definitely one of the better 330 deals right now.

Good to see some new options making their way out.

[magnetik]

Impressive Motherboard. Basically the specs of the popular Zotac Dual Core Atom boards (with the DC power brick/HDMI too!), but with a bigger (well massive!) heatsink to (hopefully) go passive. Could be a real winner there.

Wonder if it would fit into a nice vented case like...

http://www.mini-itx.com/2009/09/13/the-m...-versatile


Looking at the screenshots of the motherboard, I reckon it might...

EDIT: some better photos - I reckon it would make that case nicely - the heatsink is a little lower if anything than the back plate. This article claims a sale price of around 180euros.

http://www.nordichardware.com/en/news/69...rives.html

[magnetik]

Some more pictures

http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/512/512039/

Really interested to see a review of this motherboard, see if it really can go fanless in a well vented case...

[LTParis]

Newegg has it for $199.

[drewbagel423]

If there's no power supply, how do you hook up a hard drive or cd drive?

[Paranormal]

Theres a connector on the motherboard for hdd/cd power

[Cocophone]

I've already started saving some cash where my wife will not notice.
I'll have the parts sent to my work address.
Once the motherboard is installed in the case nobody will be the wiser!

[burritoboy9984]

As paranormal said, there is a molex connector on the motherboard for power to hdd/cd. Just thought I would answer the question before someone asked where it was

-Erik

[Cocophone]

SATA or do you need an adapter for the power connector?

[magnetik]

SATA or do you need an adapter for the power connector?

I'm pretty sure they suppy a connector from the mobo -> HDD for the power side of things. Is that what you mean?

[Cocophone]

I'm assuming the power connector for the HDD would be a SATA type power connector.

[ubuntuf4n]

Good stuff, BUT its not that cheap because you've to buy

- DDR3 RAM (Expensive nowadays)
- Graphic-card (also needs some bucks)
- Case (Could use anything)
- ...

So overall there might be people who should better look for a 'ready-made' Revi/Zotac/etc.

[magnetik]

Graphic-card (also needs some bucks)

Graphics card? It's ION chipset, so onboard Geforce with VPDAU and 1080p HDMI out. Memory is cheap, and just a well vented case... easy.

[drewbagel423]

I'm assuming the power connector for the HDD would be a SATA type power connector.

I don't see a SATA power connector in the pictures, just one 4-pin molex. I think you would need an adapter, and splitter if you had two drives.