Zotac ION as a front end

[spudmn]

Hi Pat

If I remember correctly you are using a Zotac ION for your front end.

Here in New Zealand I don't have much choice about the type of ION boards that are available.

I am looking at getting a Zotac ION ITX B Series 230.

What are your thoughts on it and do you use the 230 series or a faster CPU?

Regards
Aaron

[Patrick]

I love my Zotac Ion box. It works great. My box is the faster first generation model (the A-U). Faster is always better but honestly I hear people having great results even with Acer Revo which has the slower single core processor.

[marc]

Don't forget the video memory is shared so suggest at least two gigs of ram to give 512k to the video chip.

[lobosolo]

I am running a zotac single core 2gb ram and 4gb usb drive for the hard disk and it works brilliantly for my bedroom dvr.
a little slow on boot up, but everything else works great. but i only use it to watch shows and videos from the main backend.

http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-e- ... board.html