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37 articles tagged as ion

The upcoming high-end CPU battle could depend on motherboard prices

With X570 motherboards demanding huge premiums, Intel's cut-price Cascade Lake-X could benefit from more affordable motherboards compared to 3rd Gen Threadripper.

October 21, 2019 | 14:00

Stormforce Crystal 3600 RX 5700 Review

Stormforce's £1,300 rig sports a six-core 3rd Gen Ryzen CPU, RX 5700, and NVMe PCIe SSD.

October 21, 2019 | 09:30

Video: Project Toreador (Bloodlines 2 Mod) Part 1: Intro and 500D Teardown

Alex is going to bring the Toreador clan from Bloodlines 2 to life - in case mod form!

October 18, 2019 | 17:00

AMD's Brazos and Zacate Benchmarked

The first benchmarks of AMD's Brazos and Zacate Fusion APUs have started to appear.

January 24, 2011 | 12:02

Zotac ZBox HD-ID34 mini-PC Review

Zotac adds to its mini-PC product range with another gorgeously slim ZBox Blu-ray media PC.

October 27, 2010 | 13:01

Habey launches Ion 2 mini-ITX motherboard

Embedded computing specialist Habey has unveiled a new mini-ITX motherboard featuring Nvidia's Ion 2.

October 11, 2010 | 12:25

How to build a touchscreen all-in-one PC

We build our own all-in-one multi-touch PC, but everything doesn't go quite as planned...

July 9, 2010 | 08:46

Commodore Invictus - an Eee Keyboard killer?

Commodore USA has announced a competitor to the Asus Eee Keyboard - the Invictus.

June 1, 2010 | 16:04

AMD to launch netbook platform

As part of the compay's Fusion range, AMD has announced a low-power netbook chipset with integrated ATI graphics.

March 12, 2010 | 13:54

Nvidia's Next Generation Ion Platform

We delve into Nvidia's 'Next Generation Ion Platform', formerly known as Ion-2, to see how Optimus technology and numerous other tweaks hope to give a better graphics experience for Intel's latest Atom 'Pineview' CPUs.

March 3, 2010 | 09:09

Acer launches Ion 2 netbook

Acer has announced the first netbook to use Nvidia's Ion 2 platform, and uses Optimus to switch between integrated Intel graphics and a GeForce G310M chip.

February 16, 2010 | 10:51

Dell Zino HD Review

Dell's Zino HD could only become cuter if it was adorned with Hello Kitty graphics... and given its interchangeable lids, that's still a possibility. With a very low power AMD CPU, Radeon HD 4330 graphics, Blu-Ray drive and a terabyte of storage: is this a killer media PC?

February 16, 2010 | 08:38

Nvidia Ion 2 details, or so we think

February 15, 2010 | 10:56

Richard's Biggest Fails of 2009

January 4, 2010 | 12:33

ASRock ION 330HT-BD Net-top Review

In addtion to a dual-core Atom 330 CPU and Nvidia's Ion chipset, ASRock's Ion 330 net-top also sports a Blu-ray drive. Is it worth the asking price when weighed up against a budget PC?

November 27, 2009 | 11:40

Viewsonic VOT 132 Atom+Ion Nettop Review

With the release of Windows 7, we take another look at a nettop, this time from newcomers Viewsonic. Sporting a dualcore 1.6GHz Atom processor and Nvidia's ION chipset amidst a neat and diminutive casing, has the VOT nettop finally come good? We find out.

November 11, 2009 | 09:36

Rumour: MSI to be first with Pine Trail netbook

Next-generation Atom CPU with integrated GPU and memory controller may indeed appear this year.

August 18, 2009 | 13:53

Ion 2 to feature double the shaders

The next generation revision of Nvidia's Ion platform is likely to double the shaders from 16 to 32 - or higher - offering far greater graphics performance for netbooks.

July 2, 2009 | 12:15

Acer Aspire Revo Review

Acer's Revo is the first product we've seen that uses Nvidia's Ion platform, combining GeForce graphics with Intel's cheap and cheerful Atom CPU. It promises smooth 1080p video playback and playable game frame rates for £250 - join us as we find out whether the Revo is able to deliver.

June 22, 2009 | 15:08

Nvidia: Ion goes beyond Atom

COMPUTEX 09: Jen-Hsun Huang uses Nvidia Computex keynote to declare wide ambitions for Ion and that the "era of GPU computing is here."

June 1, 2009 | 11:39

Lenovo launches first Ion netbook

Lenovo has announced the first netbook to be built around Nvidia's Ion platform, the IdeaPad S12 - with 12" screen, HDMI output, and 1.6GHz Atom processor.

May 26, 2009 | 11:53

First Look: Zotac Nvidia Ion Mini-ITX

We've got one of the first ever mini-ITX Nvidia Ion motherboards direct from Zotac's Macau office. To our surprise, it's far more than just a dual core Atom N330 with Nvidia 9400M mGPU...

May 2, 2009 | 09:52