I order the new hot Atomm 330 as soon as I heard it was available here. Picked up just the mobo from Mika (http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/509272) instead of the system package since I already got a system package for the Atom 230.
I got the Atom 330 on Thuresday, (actually it arrived here in Malaysia on Monday but I was waiting for my moolah to clear) straight away went for some testing. First, thing I notice is that the CPU heatsink although now taller is barer to the 230's CPU heatsink on the left. The chipset heatsink/fan for the 330 has also changed size and became a little smaller. In a sense, Intel has even out the sizes of both the CPU and chipset heatsinks so they are now more or less leveled.
Sandra 2009 benchmarks 230 vs 330, 1GB DDR 667mhz:
Arithmetic
Multi Media
I lost the screenshot for the 230 Cryptography but just cut the 330 score in half and you get the idea.
Here is the 330 playing back h.264 from several sources. There seems to be frame dropping for the Transformers HD DVD but then I don't know if it is an issue on buffering or just the chipset limiting the Atom. Blu-Ray seems to do better but I can't really say.
Anyway, for a HTPC just to play all those HD rips you dled from BT the Atom 330 will sure kick ass.
In case Blogger buggered up the video you can view it here:
12 comments:
your pictures are too easy to read, please make them smaller.
Eh..... too easy to read? U mean they a little too high res?
I am thinking of getting Asus r7a, Just want your opinion..,
I want to use it for the following purposes..,
USING WITH DOCK
1. watch movies on my 32" HDTV
2. connect external bluray burner
can I watch blu ray discs with this UMPC.., Do I have to waith for anything else..,
thank you
san
Could you give me the link for the UMPC? I can't seem to find it...
these are the links
http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/03/1315
http://www.umpcportal.com/products/ASUS/R70a/
Sorry it took me so long to reply.. family crisis.. actually still in crisis but I got some free time.
The Asus R7A can decode h.264 with its Poulsbo graphic core. It seems to be able to do VC-1 so yes it should be able to handle both blu-ray and hd dvd format files.
Maybe you can try to play those video with a PCI Nvidia video card to accelerate the video playback and to reduce the cpu usage. I really want to do it but don't have the money for a video card...haha.
Was the whirring in the background the Atom computer, video card or a fan in another machine?
Could you explain step-by-step what you did to get 1080p files to play on the Atom 330? I have the board and am trying to get some WMV HD content from Microsoft's showcase by they all stutter. Cheers!
The whirling sound is the chipset fan.
Step by step tutorials will be starting in a week's time. Since, I was busy dealing with my father's stroke but progress has been made so I should have more free time to get the Guides up.
I have a HP desktop with atom 330 1.6Ghz and i'm not being able to play even a 720p mkv file. any idea how to make it play?
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