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NVIDIA ION: Has anyone built a cab with one yet?
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dmckean:
Looks like a cheap way to go.
BORIStheBLADE:
Found the one with the dual core.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500030
alank2:
Hi,

Well, I ordered the Intel Atom 330 board (no nvidia ion) and I'll report its capability next week sometime when I get it in and test it out a bit.

Thanks,

Alan
u_rebelscum:

--- Quote from: 2600 on June 05, 2009, 01:43:24 pm ---skip_gameinfo skips the popup that displays info  (I assume that if I left it disabled the calculation would be off since it would start calculating at this screen)

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FWIW, you aren't changing anything changing this setting for benchmarking.  This is automatically skipped if -str is set to a number less than 300:

   /* disable everything if we are using -str for 300 or fewer seconds, or if we're the empty driver,
       or if we are debugging */
   if (!first_time || (str > 0 && str < 60*5) ||  ...removed code... )
      show_gameinfo = show_warnings = show_disclaimer = FALSE;

Doesn't hurt, but ignored when benchmarking (unless you changed to run the bench for more than five minutes). ;)
alank2:
Hi,

My friends at UPS delivered the board from Newegg today.  I dropped 2G of memory in it, connected it to small SFX power supply, and fired it up.  Many people complained about the north bridge fan, but honestly I didn't think it was that bad.  I replaced it anyway with the little $3 40mm fan I also ordered and it is quieter.  I got the Atom 330 Intel board which is a dual core Atom running at 1.6ghz/533fsb.  It is not an Ion platform, it is running Intel Graphics.

When you go into the BIOS you get the idea that it is a SLOW board because the BIOS is slow.  You press a key and can literally see it redraw the screen!  Been a long time since I've seen that.  But, once up in Windows it actually feels pretty snappy.  I installed XP x86 and XPx64 on it for testing and loaded the Intel drivers that came on the CD with it.

I ran 3 flavors of MAME (std, i686, and a core2 optimized one) and as I've seen on my other boxes, the std version seems to be as fast as any for some reason, at least with the games I've tested.

I read that the x64 version of MAME offers more performance and since Atom supports x64 I decided to give it a try.

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