Jet-Way ION-TOP HTPC

Testing Rig

• ION-TOP Jetway HTPC
• Kingston HyperX DDR2 2GB 1200MHz @ 800MHz
• Patriot 32GB Solid State Warp Drive
• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Intel Atom 330

Benchmarks

• CPU-Z
• SiSoft Sandra
• PCMark Vantage
• Passmark 7.0

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Left4Dead
• HD Video Playback

CPU-Z

CPU-Z is not a benchmark. It is, however, a useful program to obtain information of your system. Below you can see the different system specs displayed by the program. The first important thing to notice is the specifications for the processors. There you will find the cache, the frequency, and the core information. Intel’s Atom 330 is the first processor from the Atom line that features true dual core technology. The Atom is also hyper-threaded, so it will appear as 4 cores in programs such as Program Manager.

Another important thing to notice that the chipset in this machine is not the ION – Desktop chipset, but the ION – LT Desktop chipset. nVidia has been known to come up with productive ways to make money by taking a normal chipset cutting off half of the things on it and then selling it for a fraction of the cost of the original. Usually that is not a huge problem for the larger boards since most of the components are separate from the motherboard (CPU, Graphics Card, RAM), but for an integrated system such as this one it could translate into some serious downsides in terms of graphics performance and/or CPU performance.

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