review of nvidia ION platform

[p0Pe]

finally a review of the ion platform that was intruduced at CES in january

http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/934/nvidia_ion_size.jpg

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/934/1/

[progbuddy]

Looks awesome. I like nVidia's 9400 GPU, but with an atom 230 it's gonna put a damper on it. They should do a 270 with HT and a 9400 GPU. Now let's see this in a picoITX formfactor. :D

[mtekk]

The big difference between the 230 and the N270 is power consumption (and price), the N270 is twice as expensive as the 230. Since this is not in a netbook there is no reason to use the N270 as they are not against any thermal barrier (except for the "bad bumps" on that 9400 but that's a different story). Also the 230 is a 64bit processor, the N270 is not. They really should be using the dual core 330.

[nevermind1534]

I would like to see it with the 330. If they do that, I will definitely get that for my NES PC. If not, I might get the regular 330 made by intel or Jetway.

[Zephik]

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/934/3/

The NVIDIA Ion reference platform has both Intel Atom 330 and Atom 230 processors in them, but the one that Legit Reviews was sent had the Intel Atom 230 processor inside. Both processors share the same feature set and clockspeed, but Atom 330 is a HyperThreading-enabled dual-core part. It's safe to assume that Atom 330 will generally outperform Atom 230 since it is a dual-core part. The 1.6-GHz Intel Atom 230 processor, which is a nettop (desktop) version of the familiar Atom N270 processor, is found in many of the netbooks on the market today. Both the Atom 230 and N270 have the same 512K cache and 533-MHz frontside bus, but the 230 uses 4 Watts more power since it is for the nettop and not a netbook.

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