Hardware Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi mobo

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/03/18/zotac-geforce-9300-itx-wifi-review/1

Could this mini-ITX GeForce 9300 Zotac board with integrated HDMI and WiFi possibly be the greatest home theatre board ever created? We drop in an inexpensive Intel E5200 CPU, bolt on a Blu-ray drive and check out this £120 mini marvel.

 

Aw... It is just so cute... Who is a cute little Motherboard then? You are!

I like the look of it, but I think it might have been fun to throw a graphics card in and see the gaming performance. This plus an E8500 and a 4850 could do nice things...

 

hehe this thing would be awesome with a GTX 295 and a QX CPU!

 

i just love this featureset for such a small form factor. I'm putting together a compact gaming machine, and if i hadn't just purchased a DFI P45 JR and a 130W cpu, i'd snap this up in a second!

I'm seeing the design already... the column PC: PSU and HDDs on the bottom, vertically aligned mobo above that. Fold a good GPU towards the back of the board with a flexible PCIe riser, cool the CPU and 9300 with a short water loop, all cables connected to the top, and a single 140mm radiator above that... damn i gotta start drawing....

 

any chance of a gaming performance review?

 

can you stick a Q6600 and GTX 295 on and see how it performs

 

A perfect candidate for a Sugo SG5 case and a proper gfx. Super mini gaming rig! Sadly this will never come to finland

 

I really do like these Zotac boards. They can take modern reasonably specced hardware in a very small size, perfect for a HTPC mod .

 

wot, no HQV-HD tests? or is the disc still missing

this does look like a very shiny board, but for an HTPC board i dunno why anyone would compromise on image quality and get this instead of the g45 board. unless of course they need that 16x slot, in which case arguabliy speaking they have the space for an mATX board.

 

i would love to see how this would preform with a quad, and a high end GPU

 

oooh I've been waiting for this. Cheers guys and will try and order one tonight! I got the designs ready for the project and is close to what xtrafresh says above without the water. Can't wait!!

 

Love to see this actually being build

 

I might have to copyright the idea, i think this is what i'm going to enter in the case design compo...

 

PC Pro wanted it off us to review, there's only one sample in the whole of Dennis.

Our HD HQV disk is HD DVD. Our HD DVD drive is IDE, but neither this or the Intel board has IDE

The image quality is still very good, and just drop in a 4670 - doesn't require a PCI-E connector, plus has better HQV performance and UVD2. Plus, you still get to keep a smaller form factor. Although the smaller form factor does cost £40 more than mATX.

 

95W max on the supported CPU's, so no.

but a Q9xxx and GTX295 would be fine. that would look pretty crazy, with a big heatsink as well, the motherboard would just look like a bit of sellotape holding the GPU and CPU in place.

 

Q6600 G0 is 95W, you just can't overclock it. A dual core would be far better - less stress on the front side bus and power hardware.

 

agreed, a quad really has no place in this thing, but a nice E8600 should be able to hit 10x450

 

Small size, yet supports Powerfull hardware.

DO WANT!!!

 

If i may do some whining:

Page 3, "this should be enough for substantial overclocks on most Core 2 Duo CPUs even with 266MHz and 333MHz DDR2 RAM (just make should you have the have the cooling to go with it too)."

scuzmewut? assuming should would be sure.
~vhet<3