Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
We matched up the ECS HDC-I against an ASRock A330ION and Zotac 9300-ITX WiFi motherboard to showcase some of the differences users will notice between Brazos, Atom/Ion, and legacy Intel Core 2 Duo-based mini ITX boards. The Zotac board has an NVidia 9300 GPU onboard, so it will be interesting to see the benchmarks results between these radically different integrated graphand chipsets. But, this comparison should provide us a good overview of the HDC-I’s capabilities and general performance features.
CPU-Z screenshot
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Test System Setup |
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CPU |
AMD E-350 (running at 1.6GHz) Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 (running at 2.8GHz) Intel Atom 330 (running at 1.6GHz) |
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Motherboards |
ECS HDC-I Fusion |
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Memory |
OCZ Technology (2 x 2GB) DDR2-800 Dual Channel |
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital 150GB Raptor SATA 3GB/s |
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Sound Card |
Onboard sound |
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Video Card |
Onboard video – AMD APU (AMD Radeon HD 6310, NVIDIA ION MCP7A-ION, NVIDIA 9300) |
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Video Drivers |
NVIDIA: 190.38; AMD: 8.820 |
| Power Supply | Corsair 750W PSU |
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DirectX Version |
DX10 and DX11 |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit |
Benchmarks used:
– SiSoft Sandra 2011b
– CineBench 10
– Handbrake DVD compression
– 3DMark Vantage
– PCMark Vantage
Great review, any news on how
Great review, any news on how the AW-NE139 performs for wifi transfers and stability? I have a Zotac MAG and the Azurewave AR5B95 card in it is terrible.
that was the crappiest review
that was the crappiest review I have read. The amount of details you went into was only slightly better than nil. Not even sure how you manage to maintain a website.
Here’s one glaring example, since you overclocked it where are the performance figures?
I have been thinking about
I have been thinking about building a theater PC using something like this. The question is the cost of new hardware and lower power over using old hardware and high power cost. So far I have opted for older hardware.
As for the anonymous comment on overclocking: if you are interested in that then you don’t get the point of a system like this. The point is to use low power and heat. If you want to overclock get a bigger board. The overclocking was thrown in just because it is usually thrown in to reviews on this site. From a floating point operations per second point of view these systems are a joke. The point is to use just enough electricity to get the media playing without dropping frames.
BIOS instead of UEFI?
BIOS instead of UEFI?
Interesting, but the
Interesting, but the overclocking capability of this board is amazing, probably the best I ever seen for a E-350 board, I think the result deserves more attention and praise, also to explore the performance potential with this very significant OC would be nice…
I’m writing this reply from
I’m writing this reply from ECS HDC-I board and i must say, I can’t find that option in BIOS, there is no such thing as “turbo mode”, and there is no BIOS download from ECS site so I guess we all have the same BIOS. I bought the board because of this, but unfortunately, something must have gone wrong…
It should be under the last
It should be under the last tab in the BIOS, Frequency and Voltage control.
Maybe you can find more here? http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=1259&CategoryID=1&MenuID=106&LanID=9
Can anyone save the new BIOS
Can anyone save the new BIOS version, and send it to us? He can use this program: http://downloads.zotac.com/mediadrivers/mb/bios/pa192.zip
Thank you, and sorry for the bad English (google translate )
P.S. No BIOS on the ECS website!