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The Bundle:
One of the best parts about purchasing a motherboard is receiving all the extra goodies that come with it. For the Asus AT3IONT-I Deluxe, one of the most important is the DC power brick. Without this baby your mini ITX setup wouldn't be more then a fairly expensive paperweight, albeit a very cool looking one.
While the power brick will do a great job at powering the AT3IONT-I, it won't do much in terms of powering your HDD's and ODD's. For those you'll need to use the included Molex to SATA power cord. Simply plug this cord into the board's Molex connector, and you should be good to go, provided you don't need to power more than three things. One of the largest objects in the bundled package is the remote control. This will allow you to control the home theater features of the AT3IONt-I.
Also included in the software bundle are two SATA cables, as well as a power cord to use with your DC power brick. Along with those items you'll find a USB receiver to use with your remote control, and an antenna to use with the built in wireless.
Unique Features:
Asus Express Gate
The Asus Express Gate is a nifty little "OS" before the actual operating system. When you power on your system it will quickly boot straight into the Asus Express Gate. From there you will be able to browse the Internet, play some online games, instant message friends, or make calls via Skype. This can be very useful for users who want to check the Internet quick, without having to worry about actually booting into Windows.
Asus Home Theater Gate
Asus wouldn't be able to call the AT3IONT-I a mini home theater without some sort of home theater software. The Home Theater Gate does is just that. Once you've booted into Windows you'll be able to launch it. From there you'll be able to play music, look at pictures, watch videos, or listen to Internet radio.
PC Probe
Last but not least is the Asus PC Probe. This can be considered the ultimate PC monitoring tool. It will provide you with information such as temperatures and voltages. It will also let you know if anything starts to get too hot!
Let's get to the benchmarking!
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If I had cable TV instead of satellite I would really look at making this into a HTPC. I've always liked them and have always wanted to make one but they're pointless when you have satellite TV with a DVR.
I do have a bit of a comment on the benchmarks. Since this board is designed to be a HTPC and has a built in ATOM processor, its obviously not meant for heavy gaming or anything too heavy on the processor. I would have loved to see how well this would have functioned while using the HTPC options. If you were to get a dual TV tuner and put it in there, how well would it perform at recording 1 show in 1080p while watching another show in 1080p? Its understandable if the reviewer didnt have a TV tuner and couldnt test this out, but that would be one of the key things I would look at while looking at the review of a HTPC.
What is the rated output for the power brick? I assume its capable of running that board along with 4 hard drives and a few other things (not necessary a high end video card though).
Overall, I thought it was a great review. It made me want to go out and get that board and see how small of a HTPC I could make with it
I've actually got a box of used TV tuners I pulled out of a friends old tv server. I'm not sure if any of them work, but if any do I'll test that out for you and let you know the results.
Thanks
If you want to run a Highend Card you'll run into trouble, because you'll have no means of powering the card. That and I doubt the Powerbrick would be able to handle a high end card.
But as long as the card can pull all the power it needs from the PCIe slot you'll be fine.
As for the TVtuner question, all the cards I have are PCI, and this board doesn't have a PCI slot.
you'd need to either need to get a PCIe tuner, with the sacrifice of a gpu. Or a USB tuner.