ASUS AT3N7A-I best mini-itx ION-Based board so far

ASUS has just joined the NVIDIA's ION platform with their first NVIDIA ION-based AT3N7A-I motherboard. Boasting a mini-ITX form factor, the board comes equipped with a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor with a core speed of 1.6GHz and all the necessary hardware to run a HTPC. It has 2 memory DIMMs slot which can support up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, 1 PCI slot, 3 SATA 3Gbps ports. It also comes with HDMI, DVI-D & VGA, Gigabit Ethernet LAN, 8-channel HD Audio Codec at the back panel. 

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You can also find Express Gate on this small board, Express Gate is a simplified Linux OS which will enable you get access to your multimedia library or start surfing the internet almost instantly without log on the Windows.

The selling points of this small board are: mini-itx, ion platform, duo-core atom, express gate, e-sata (for your external hard disks) and low power consumption.

This is the FIRST mini-itx ion board from one of the world's few best motherboard manufacturers, personally I think it would outperform its counterpart Zotac ION 1680, still, it's cheaper than the Zotac.