Published: Wednesday 3rd December, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi
Companies: ZOTAC (All ZOTAC content)
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email to a friendZOTAC seems to be on a roll with its itty-bitty mini ITX motherboards. Having recently launched its impressive-looking nForce 630i ITX for Intel systems, it's now bolstering its AMD line-up with the GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi.
The GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi, pictured below, rolls NVIDIA's GeForce 8200 chipset into a tiny 170mm x 170mm frame. Featuring an integrated GeForce 8200 GPU - with a core clock speed of 500MHz, 16 stream processors and NVIDIA PureVideo HD - the board will make light work of any high-def material, and it'll upscale your standard-def DVDs, too.
Should you want to do more than just media playback, it's armed with support for DirectX 10, as well as NVIDIA CUDA and PhysX.
The board supports any AMD AM2+ processor, and the two DDR2 slots allow for up to 8GB of 1,066MHz memory. There's one PCIe x1 slot that'll come in handy for your TV tuner of choice, and there's a choice of video outputs; HDCP-compliant DVI, as well as VGA and HDMI.
Network connectivity comes in the form of Gigabit Ethernet or 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and there's six USB ports for all your peripherals.
There's no mention of price or retail availability just yet, but if the price is right, the addition of some cheap DDR2 and a low-cost Phenom CPU could make this the ideal platform for a tiny HTPC.
Official press release: ZOTAC Unleashes Graphics Plus Mini-ITX Platform
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Apart from, like, the heading of the article is "looking for a perfect htpc mobo" or something.
I mean, in reality.Quote
I'd not heard of Itx until this article... are these any good for HTPCs?
Apart from, like, the heading of the article is "looking for a perfect htpc mobo" or something.
I mean, in reality.
id be more inclined to get either:
a 780G chipsetted one - for its hardware decoding.
if i had no need for high definition playback an atom based board - for its low cost.
but mini-itx's in general are brilliant for htpc's as you can stash everything in a case that makes a shuttle look big and clunkyQuote
What do you use? A biscuit tin?Quote
Which brings me neatly to my next question:
What do you use? A biscuit tin?
http://www.scan.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=itx+caseQuote
Which brings me neatly to my next question:
What do you use? A biscuit tin?
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/biscuittinpc/ if you like! they will go in just about anything.
as for actual cases, most of them are stupidly expensive. but:
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12082 something tiny that takes a 3.5"er
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10292 something tiny that takes a 2.5"er
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(37992)In-Win-BM639-mini-ITX-case---desktoptower.aspx something i may end up with, still very small but with quite a bit of room
http://www.xcase.co.uk/p/404991/chenbro-es34069-mini-itx-home-servernas-chassis---just-arrived.html the god of mini-itx cases and if i was ever crazy enough to drop nearly 200 on a case it would be thatQuote
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