Zotac preparing a pair of miniature motherboards for the platform NVIDIA ION

The first and still the only PC platform NVIDIA ION, as is known, has become a nettop Acer AspireRevo, whose release was announced about two weeks ago.


It seems that AspireRevo will be the soloist not for long in the category. According to a source, company Zotac lately pleasing of the admirers with interesting 3D-cards, prepares for release at once two system payments on sheaf Intel Atom and NVIDIA ION.

Boards IONITX-AU and IONITX-BE size Mini-ITX will be equipped with dual-core processor Atom N330 and Atom N230 single, respectively. Both products are made on the MCP79 chipset with integrated GeForce 9400 graphics processor supporting technology PureVideo HD, CUDA and PhysX.

In equipping board interfaces include HDMI, DVI and VGA (D-Sub), two slots for memory DDR2-667/800, Adapter Wi-Fi. Connecting external devices and systems provide expansion ports USB (10 pieces), slot miniPCI-Express, three SATA ports and one eSATA. As shown in the picture, the processor and chipset with passive cooling - the total aluminum radiator covers the visible portion of the card.

First Boards Zotac IONITX-AU and IONITX-BE will appear in the Japanese market, where they set the price equal to $ 300 and $ 200 respectively.

Source: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/
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OCZ Technology has presented a very fast SSD - Vertex EX 2.5"

OCZ Technology Group announced the release of a series of devices Vertex EX 2,5 "Solid State Drive, aimed at application servers and are designed to ensure high performance in enterprise applications.


The manufacturer notes that the OCZ Vertex EX have high performance and reliability, a solid-state drives based on flash memory type SLC Interface SATA. Other advantages of series products OCZ Vertex EX SSD are the already well-known advantages over HDD: a compact form factor, lower power consumption, the absolute silence, with higher productivity.

Drives OCZ Vertex EX 2.5 "Solid State Drive models with capacity 60 and 120 GB. They are equipped with 64-MB cache, have access to the data being less than 0.1 ms. Speed is very high: 260 MB / s reading and 200 MB / when you record with a 60-GB version and 120-GB version can write data at 10 MB / s faster.

Dimensions of drives are equal to 99,8 x 69,63 x 9,3 mm, weight - 77 g. They consume between 2 and 5 W power, supports the work of RAID, withstand pressures up to 1500G, and have time to experience rejection 1.5 million hours. Compatible operating systems are Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64, Mac OS X 10 and above.

Source: http://www.ocztechnology.com/
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