Nvidia displays more Ion based devices

Nvidia Ion has become a great success in a short time, and many companies are moving in to produce more and more Ion based products. Recently at Computex 2009, Nvidia displayed as much as 21 Nvidia Ion based devices from different manufacturers. All of these devices are small form factor or Desktop PCs capable of providing best visual interface and support of full HD 1080p decode acceleration.

The companies which offers the new devices includes Acer, Lenovo, MSI and Asus. Most of these devices are All-in-one systems which offers superior performance as compared to their rivals. Some of these includes Acer Revo and Lenovo Ideapad S12 which are both grabbing attention in the consumer market. Dell and HP are also expected to produce Ion powered devices by the end of this year.

Here is a list of the newly released devices.

Acer	Desktop	AspireRevo
AsRock	Desktop	ION 330
ASUS	Motherboard	C2N7A-I
ASUS	All-in-one	eeeTop ET2002
Colorful	Desktop	iHTPC
ECS	Desktop	7AT-3L
ECS	All-in-one	Morph-I
Flextronics	All-in-one	Cobra-2
Flextronics	Desktop	Dove-2
Funtwist	Desktop	FION 330
ICD	All-in-one	Kitchen PC
Lenovo	Notebook	IdeaPad S12
MSI	Desktop	Windbox D200
MSI	All-in-one	Windtop AE2201
Pegatron	Desktop	IPP7A-CP
Pegatron	All-in-one	IPP7A-DF2
Pegatron	Motherboard	IPX7A-ION
TCL	All-in-one	Ruiyi 1010
Telcast	Notebook	TL-1000N
Weibu	Notebook	N10A
Zotac	Motherboard	ION-ITX

These platform are fully compatible with both Windows Vista and Windows 7, and provides DirectX 10 support for casual gaming, and full HD 1080p support for best media experience.

The details about the newly released devices can be seen Here.

These are some of the Ion Powered Devices.

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Your Computer’s Performance Test

Performance Test is a PC benchmark software by PassMark. This is the best tool yet available in market to check your computer’s performance score just in few minutes. It takes only about 2-3 minutes and give you a complete picture of your computer’s performance.

Download Setup (11 MB)

Time of Test = 2-3 Minutes

Note: The results of Performance Test are accurate and very close to that of PCmark and 3Dmark, which take a lot of time to show their results.

Before you start the test (prerequisites):

Laptop:

• Make sure that you are not running it in Power Savor mode especially using Vista. Go to Control Panel, then Power-Options and select Balance Mode, or Performance Mode or Company Recommended Mode (This is one of the common reason that Laptop gives less score while having a good Processor)
• Make sure that the Power is plugged-in and you are not running on battery
• Close all programs, disable extra utilities and stop any other task
• Make sure you have latest drivers and directx installed

PC:

• Close all programs, disable are extra utilities and stop any other task
• Make sure you have latest drivers and directx installed

After download, install and run the Performance Test. You will see a complete picture of a computer components. As the performance test software started it already calculated the specifications and models of your computer. Click on any part, it will show the speed,model etc in a pop-up balloon. You can view all by taking mouse over Show All button.

Now, If you want a complete PC benchmark, then click on Run Bechmark from the left menu. Sit back and see the different cool tests it performs on your system. After the test is finished, the Performance test will give you the score of your system.

Snapshots of some tests:

Finally you get to see the system Score. Note this is the overall score of the system. You can further browse in the tabs on top to view the individual scores of each components in the system

I find this Benchmark software really useful, it’s light, small in size and gives you report in minutes. You can carry it around in your flash drive or laptop and see friends laptops or computers score, compare and have fun!

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