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  • The intel atom sucks ass...1.8 ghz dual core?1.8ghz sucks bad.

  • hey how much is that i want that

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  • getting one of these instead of a gaming desktop soon. Only 300 Canadian: )

    Can't wait!

  • but will it blend?

  • Hey Techware Lab guys, since this video is 2 years old is there an updated version of this product? Im trying to build a case that requires small components and this seems to fit the bill for what i need it for. A liitle bit of gaming (nothing to crazy since it handles CoD4) and mostly media. The box is nice since i don't want a screen attached to it. Thank for your time.

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  • @jkial500 I would look into an ION2 platform with a Atom 1.8. Jetway, Zotec, Giada are good in that department. For the case I recommend Chenboro mITX chassis some of them have hot swappable drive trays which are always nice. I would not recommend running cod on the PC though 1080p and you should be fine

  • @slickrtm could it run san andreas smoothly. I am seriously considering getting a nettop pc with this spec

  • Are u kidding(?) a new retarted atom cpu for play tetris, that no funny when make normal and good cpu a millions are spended on this srap!!!!!

  • @H8Hater

    dont be so fucking stupid!

  • I like Intel Atom it save lot of electric long term.

  • I love Intel Atom processors and the Ion GPU as they're both incredibly impressive pieces of technology in general. I plan on just using Ion/Atom based hardware in the long-term future because of the low power consumption and their surprising power for such small components.

    Sure, you won't be able to run Crysis on ultra settings but who cares? If you wanted to play Crysis you could on an Ion/Atom platform. ;) Just not anything above 20 FPS on low settings.

  • This thing is amazing. I'm going to buy it!!!!

  • From what I've seen with the Intel Atom CPUs and the nVidia ION graphics, I'll stick with AMDs Neo CPUs and their AMD Radeon graphics... Next!!

  • will it be able to play CoD : WaW?

  • wait is the demo machine running on a quad core cpu? if you look at the powerdvd video playback test you can see it has 4 boxes = 4 cores, if I am not mistaking

  • @putzamoale99 Its a hyperthreaded dual core atom, basically 2 cores handling 4 threads.

  • @greyfoxzero I stand corrected, can I do this with my cpu ??

  • @putzamoale99 Not sure, what cpu do you have? 

  • @greyfoxzero I have a amd athlon II X4 can I get like 8 threads ??? od 6 what eva thats fine :P

  • @putzamoale99 A quad core athlon will handle 4 threads however the architecture is different with Amd chips and they don't rely on hyperthreading like Intel. A dual core atom is very underpowered compared to just one of your cores but for general use its not bad at all. Most of the heavy lifting on an ion system is done by the GPU. Its real benefit is its very low power draw.

  • i definitely really enjoy the game. i play the game every night along with my pal and we always win. we are pretty good but that's due to the fact we purchased a brand new gaming mouse with all the money we saved as a result of getting the complete game out of mw2forfreeUinfo (replace U with .) rather than buying it

  • Im building my cousin a computer with the ion. Seems it can also play tf2 well. But I have a real gaming computer My 6 Core AMD monster! Mwahahah!

  • what is everyones perfect gun? i adore a rpg personally. it's easy to be able to rip up everybody by using it! my roommate calls me the noob for using it but who cares. i am somewhat different maybe! but at least i didnt need to pay for the game. i down loaded it for nothing at mw2forfreeYinfo (replace Y with . ) a few days ago

  • They should make a handheld console like that!

  • I'm suprised, at this little graphics card in a NETBOOK... this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in a net-top/book.

  • Is "Slow ride" playing in the background LOL,

  • Wow...nVidia just blows... :D

  • WOW! Besides the Atom CPU, everything is faster than my laptop with intel Graphic (intel graphic, screw YOU!).

  • I have an HP mini 311-1037nr its got a single core 2 thread Intel Atom N270, 2 GB Ram & the nVidia Ion, and I have to say, its better than most netbooks on video, but I have to get a dual core atom... this 1.6 GHz Atom SUCKS... but I can play 1080p... the CPU runs near 100% tho lol but the nVidia Ion is fucking AWESOME.

  • frap dont take shit when youre not recording you dumb ass

  • i love you nvidia

  • just add an esata port for external hard drives and that thing is going to be incredible

  • pc in my pocket

    looks Like console!!

  • I WANT ONE I WANT ONE!!!

  • wait a second where's the hd!?

  • crap.....more frames than my e5200+gma3100!!!

  • @LankanDude94 indeed, intel's really greedy by forcing 90% of laptop users to use their own graphic. Intel Atom processor with nvidia ION has faster graphics than a system Intel core i5 and intel HD. Thinking about it, Netbook vs Mainstream/upper end processor! (This is according to 3D mark) Intel graphic = waste of a good PC!, since you have a desktop you can upgrade =)

  • @chrischoy9 so true, gotta love the desktop :)

  • i need this

  • Fck spending $60 for CODMW2. Me and my buddies downloaded the steam working version with the brand new Map-Pack from codmw2freedlYcom (replace Y with . ) yesterday, and it works beautifully. I'm already at lvl 17 and cannot wait to unlock the ACR with Silencer!

  • that thing is not heating up!

  • fake processor xD

  • I cant play 1080p smooth with the ION

  • @jfunnyshit5 It depends on your video player. You have to tell the player to load more to the GPU. Most video players have some option for this. 

  • @jfunnyshit5 Are you sure? My friends could play Left 4 dead on it!. Check to see its not intel graphic by pressing ctr+alt+f12 (they suck)

  • Would lineage 2 gracia run max out on it?

  • wii 2?

  • @nooblet911 hopefully.

  • what does that mean, lol

  • @nooblet911 At wii2, and tegra 2 for DS

  • CoD4 on a Netbook?

    Amazing.

  • guys u need to get this in your head that this is an ATOM processor. it isn't supposed to play your cod 5 maxed out with 10000 frames. it is a small computer which is only supposed to be a media PC. so stop complaining.

  • Really, how good is ion??

    I'm sure it'll be decent in HD video playback but can it play modern pc games??

  • @lighangel yes. there are some videos of someone using his Nvidia ion board with the atom 330 (dual core 1.6ghz) Oc'ed to 2ghz-2.15ghz. and 2 gigs of ram playing things like bioshock 2.

  • atom processors are a total failure

  • fraps doesn't take any frames out of the game only when recording and he is inside the ship not outside so the frames for fighting outdoors would prob be around 5 to 15fps

  • thats true m8, look when he walks it even get 21fps

  • what are they gonna cost? :P they look amazing

  • Techwarelabs, Keep up the video uploads.

  • smaller than a wii but damn strong.

  • anybody know the status on the ions availability on the market? message would be great

  • im surprised nvidia ion hasnt brought down the price of intel accelerator netboks but it hasnt :/ wtf?

  • which "call of duty" ?

  • @35101056 4 if you listen -.-

  • dude they could make a handheld console out of this if they made it a little smaller

  • it is smaller than the box according to my netbook ;-)

  • sunt curios de cata putere are nevoie...

  • LOL

  • awesome. couple this with a 7" touch screen and a keyboard that has trackball(like the one we have here at home) tadah perfect car pc ^.^

  • Hi!

    The Power of the nVidia-Chip is realy amazing!

    Im thinking about building a multimeda-pc on myself. The Atom CPU and nVidia GPU would be perfect for my plans. But has the Ion-Unit any PCI slots or any other posibility to Conect a tv-card with it? If anyone know how it could work -> please post back

  • I just bought a zoltec one that has an optional pci riser standard sized pci cards

  • Cool,dar Hard discul undei?

  • tipu ala are in mana doar placutza cu procesoru si cu chipsetul video(procesorul grafic) kestia aia e conectata la alta placa mai mare cu usburi si cu alte porturi(eSata,etc) la care e conectat si hardu ;) e destul de bun kiar daca incape intr-o palma :D peste cativa ani o sa avem calculatoare si mai performante de marimea unui telefon pe care sa le conectam la un monitor eventual la un tv si sa ne jucam sau sa intram pe net ;)

  • are SSD nu mai is cu disk mai nou

  • This looks awesome. The point isn't to play games on a netbook. It's showing that It CAN. For a netbook, you would mostly use it for HD movies and web browsing. But for an acutal PC as the one shown (how small it is) you just hook up a monitor and play games there. it's meant to be a replacement for your current bulky home pc or a convienient travel netbook.

  • 4:51 epic face

  • that's pretty crazy

  • Do not go to the link by:

    kaylaaanevarezeuiw it is a scam. Report this user and have them removed.

  • Moron

  • Cool but it's 4 inch if it was 3'5 you could put 1 in your drivebay

  • put a computer in your computer so you can game while you game X'D

  • @jvdthwip yess :D or if you have a second or 3 monitor you can watch tv haha

  • dumbass, it only takes frames off if u record it... when its yellow, its not recording.

  • nice

  • what is the point of playing graphic intensive games on a netbook? netbooks have tiny screens so no matter how mush quality u get u have to squint and concentrate so hard to aplay a game.

  • You've never played a PSP game? Even on PSP's screen you can see plenty of polygons and notice a lack of particle effects and occasionally low resolution textures.

    Don't even get me started on the DS.

    A netbook that can play modern PC games is just awesome, especially for games where it would be nice to open it up and play whenever, like if you're currently working through a file in Oblivion or Dragon Age on a plane trip or at lunch or something.

  • Kudos to asus for starting the small pc netbook craze

  • they show make it a little bigger and add a Intel core 2 Duo or a 9800GT

  • its cheaper then the current intel gma netbook i have

    Im raising money to buy one, and if new ones like ion2 appear, ill keep on moneyraising

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  • nvidia already planning ion 2 chip.... sob! technology passed us by at the speed of light because we didn't get to see it's first chip in action lol

  • oh no that is still only phase 1. Phase 2 is getting Crysis to run on med on very small netbooks.

  • Wow...that little thing can game better than my desktop!

  • this little piece of crap is complete BS!

    i have one and its a complete farce..

    as soon as i have the money im building a new computer that can atleast run cs 1.6 smootly, something that this joke of a computer cant..

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  • If this thing can run crysis or gta4, its gonna be a hit! can it?

  • gta4 requires a lot of cpu power, but i should be able to do crysis if it is as they say, a 9400m

  • do you have any idea how bad the intel atom processors are?

  • well .. i know that they pretty much suck at performance

  • The chip is beast, the processor is not. Power this thing up with a half decent processor and you're good to go.

  • I have one smaller than that, but not with an nvidia. I'ts called fit-pc2

  • Has anyone released any super small desktops like this yet?

  • Acer has the AspireRevo now. It's pretty nice, although last I checked they're loading it with XP and 1GB of RAM (which you have to share with the GPU).

    It'd probably be great with Windows 7, 2 GB of RAM, and overclocked a bit. :V

    Big drawback: No disc drives.

    Big boon: HDMI-in, perfect Media Center machine.

  • Fraps don't take any FPS away if it isn't recording.

    by the way, this is amazing

  • Yeah, i was almost yelling at the video when he said that lol

  • I hope they are considering releasing that 1.6 dual core atom configuration with a 60gb SSD.

    Then I would buy it...

  • I meant a netbook with that + 60g SSD.

  • they wont release netbook with ssds becasue theyre too expensive but it is pretty easy just to buy your own ssd

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  • Get quad core i have intel quad core q8200

  • sucks you should have the intel core i7 extreme...

  • Do you even know how much heat that CPU produces?

  • yes almost NONE, if you build a good rig, which I am about to do :)

  • You actually got it inside a nVidia Ion PC??

  • I must have one

  • What about support on linux? They tell nothing. If it is not going to support debian/ubuntu I am not interested in.

  • Why worry, Im pretty sure it will run linux.

    If your worried about the graphics driver, then I understand.

  • Well, I worry because NVidia does not use to make things open source for linux. They tend to keep things proprietary and with copyrights, and this complicates the life when using debian. And no, I don't want to change to Ubuntu.

  • Nvidia driver for whatever OS you use are backwards and forward compatable. If you are running Linux Mint for example with 190+ drivers you should have no problem.

  • I'm glad I did not buy a netbook last year and waited for this to come out.

    You can buy Ion boards and netbooks now they cost more then the Intel GMA ones but are worth every penny of the extra cost.

  • this is the future of computers.goodbye p.o.s huge towers.

  • Hate to tell you this bubby but where do you put the disks? Still need some form of permastorage. Blueray recorders take room and power.

    Still it is kick ass.

  • that looks fucking kick ass i want one XD good by to my netbook hello ion!

  • The new low powered PC for the low powered economy, lol. The Nvidia ion can't compete with a Geforce 6800 or better, but it is cheap.

  • He said it was a 9400 GPU ...

  • The Geforce 6800 GT has more power than the Nvidia Ion. 3dmark2006 for Geforce 6800GT=1600-1650, and 3dmark2006 score for the Nvidia Ion =1100-1200.

  • How much?

  • Watch the video dumbasses :D He says between "$350-$500."

  • GET THIS THING ON THE MARKET ALREADY!!

    I WOULD SERIOUSLY BUY 4 OF THESE!! One in my car, one in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, one in the .... you get the point.

    ME WnT nOW!!!

  • Very cool!!

  • wow that is amazing! i really like how the thing is like the size of my hand and it rivals most gaming computers 10 times its size

  • Me want

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  • that really pisses me off i bought from dell for lets just say expensive then this comes and is totally awesome in comparison for LESS!!

  • WOW the dual core Atom has four threads ,I might get one!

  • At this rate we will have invisible computers in the future...

  • A flexible transparent touchscreen monitor (in the making), a small (lexar small) size computer that is mostly a power-button that is connected to a wireless mobile network, and that can collapse to fit in the space of a small pen in your shirt pocket next to your other pens and paper.

    THE WAY OF THE FUTURE... believe... it's real.

  • wow

  • im still waiting for a netbook with a dual core atom and ion 2

  • i think you can w8 more than 6 month.. they are'nt destroying their own subnotebook market

  • I FUCKING WANT ONE!!

  • Nvidia says it wont cost that much to have ion. I bought my laptop with an intel graphics and its hard to play even the very first counter strike.

  • WOW i cant wayt till it comes out!!!!!

  • are the dual core atoms with Ion available for any Netbook currently?, there is a major performance difference between single and dual core, its a serious bottle neck for the Geforce 9400,. Iv only seen Lenovo s-12 but thats a single core.

  • Haven`t seen a 330 netbook yet..

  • I WANT A FREAKING ION NAO!!!!!!

  • very impressive

  • TRY PLAY CRYSIS...

  • Im sure it will be able to run crysis. Not in ultra high, but it'll run. Why dont you try run the most gpu-intensive game on something smaller than a box of milk?

  • Why? This is not for Gamers man, it's for mainstream consumers who would watch movies and or do things of that nature.

  • But the netbooks will be for gamers, and they should be awesome.

  • I was thinking the same thing lol! 500ghz cpu at a thenth of an inch! =P

  • i think it is going to give about 4-10fps maximum but this thing is the smallest pc i have ever seen...don't forget that you need at least 20times bigger pc to play crysis with dignity :P...a good GPU for crysis is 5 times bigger than ion :P

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  • wht u mean?

  • Holy crap, this is amazing, if technology keeps heading this way, the future we've been imagining might come true.

  • i cant wait for netbooks to have dual core and ion. so cheap,why not get hd streaming in every room lol

  • FTW

  • indeed.....

  • hey plz help me i bought a zotac ionitx-a and i tried to install xp on a new hdd using a scratched xp disc. then i reinstalled it using another cd, and

    now even the defrag cant solve this ind the comp is incredibly slow at everything!!!

    i've seen countersrike:source running with steady 50fps @ 1024x768, now i, even @ 800x 600 with 8 bots i have around 20fps!!!

    plz help me my config is zotac ionitx-a, 32bit xp, 4gb ram(512gpu) , wd blue 500gb and nothing else!!!

    thx!!!!

  • there's a pc (or nettop) that's been released recently that is virtually identical to this called the ASRock Ion 330 (aka ASRock Ionstar). It's got the nvidia ion platform and a dual core atom 330 processor (overclockable to 2.1 ghz via the BIOS). It has received VERY good reviews and is available at around £230 in the UK (so around $450-$550 in the USA i'd guess.) It WONT be capable of replacing a high spec gaming PC, but should run most games from early 2008 backwards on high settings :).

  • You reckon it will run sims 3?

  • Firestorm189

    I now have the ASRock ion 330. Yes it should run sims 3 pretty easily on low or mid settings, although it does depend on whether or not you overclock the processors and what operating system you're using :)

  • Hotdamn. I'm not a complete and utter newbie to computer modding ( i know the basics aka. how to switch out RAM and graphics cards properly etc), but would it be possible to switch out the atom processor for something more heavyweight, or does it depend on the atom due to the way it's built?

  • assuming you didn't mind too much for size issues anyway.

  • (continuing...) obviously you can't do anything about the graphics chipset either, as it's onboard. however, the n330 (the processor) is apparently very stable to overclock- although i'm paranoid about this :D if you google search 'asrock ion 330 review' or something similar, you will see that many can easily and safely overclock to 2.1 ghz- which is more than enough considering it's a dual core cpu. if you have any more other questions, message me instead of replying to this comment/topic! :)

  • Firestorm189

    Unfortunately not no- the cpu is soldered on to the motherboard. there are no other ready made pc's (afaik) that have BOTH the N330 and nvidia ion though. The alternative (to build your own pc with a intel atom processor and nvidia ion chipset motherboard) would also not be possible, as, as far as i know, the only motherboard available has the atom processor soldered on. In short, i don't *think* that atom processors (whatever socket they use) can be upgraded on any atom pcs atm.

  • It is an embedded M-ITX board. You can try the 9300 D-ITX from Zotac. You could put any S775 processor on it. I would recommend the Q8200 which is as fast as the q6600 on 2.4 Ghz.... it also has an pci-e thingy where you can put an additional graphics card in to make use of hybrid SLI and furthermore you can put all of this with an scythe shuriken, overclock the Q8200 to 3 Ghz and put all of this in an Silverstone SUGO SG05B and you've got a little beast.

  • insane in the membrane

  • LOL that is my computer acer aspire one i am looking at this with.

  • These Things Or Gonna Sell Out so FAST!

  • the duel core atom is running at an faster MHz than the Acer one.Pluss the Acer on has one core

  • can anyone tell me what settings cod4 was on?

  • that tiny little box at 0:27 is a motherboard??? if it is WoW such a small motherboard never seen 1 like it :) but if it is a motherboard it doesnt need case??? because cases r bigger then that motherboard if it is a motherboard

  • Yes, its a pico-itx, been out for a few years but its power wasn't enough to do much more than mp3 car players.

  • how do u get cae for that tiny motherboard?? and no graphicscard can fit it in i bet

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  • @ EminemBeastFan24

    Ugghhh! That is a graphics card dude!!! A nvidia graphics card with a intel atom processor soldered to it.