The Brazos Review: AMD's E-350 Supplants ION for mini-ITX

jmke · 28th January 2011, 14:11

With the settlement done and no DMI license in place, it's clear that there won't be another ION from NVIDIA (at least not based on x86). What Brazos is however is the ION successor that NVIDIA never built. For just over $100 you'll be able to buy a mini-ITX board with an E-350 that's faster than Atom, faster than ION and more feature rich than both. While I don't believe Brazos has enough CPU power under the hood to be a truly high end HTPC, it's easily good enough for a low cost, value HTPC. Popular codecs are well accelerated and with full DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support Brazos is solid. Flash acceleration is also present although it looks like there are still some kinks that need to be worked out there.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4134/t...on-for-miniitx

jmke · 28th January 2011, 14:13

lower power usage than Atom, better performance than Atom and ION; and pricetag of ~$100. Finally a deadly silent HTPC ?

28th January 2011, 14:11	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	The Brazos Review: AMD's E-350 Supplants ION for mini-ITX With the settlement done and no DMI license in place, it's clear that there won't be another ION from NVIDIA (at least not based on x86). What Brazos is however is the ION successor that NVIDIA never built. For just over $100 you'll be able to buy a mini-ITX board with an E-350 that's faster than Atom, faster than ION and more feature rich than both. While I don't believe Brazos has enough CPU power under the hood to be a truly high end HTPC, it's easily good enough for a low cost, value HTPC. Popular codecs are well accelerated and with full DTS-HD MA and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support Brazos is solid. Flash acceleration is also present although it looks like there are still some kinks that need to be worked out there. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4134/t...on-for-miniitx __________________

28th January 2011, 14:13	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	lower power usage than Atom, better performance than Atom and ION; and pricetag of ~$100. Finally a deadly silent HTPC ? __________________

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