Tuesday, December 1st 2009
Zotac Announces GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E) LGA-775 Motherboard
ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E) delivers three SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports with support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5, wake on USB support, greater range of overclocking options and enhancements to the GeForce 9300 graphics processor.
"ZOTAC was the world's first manufacturer to provide users with high-performance mini-ITX platforms with PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion that made no compromises for performance. Our latest ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi, GF9300-I-E, takes our award winning formula of combining performance with a small form factor and supercharges it to make the world's fastest mini-ITX platform available," said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.
Whether you want to build a system that dominates performance charts or consumes minimal amounts of power, the ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi is capable of serving both requirements with new overclocking options. New overclocking options on the ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi enable voltage adjustments for CPU, chipset and memory.
The range of voltage options allow for overvolting to increase overclocking capabilities or undervolting for greater energy-efficiency. The tweaked and tuned ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E) is designed to accommodate large heat sinks with ease for improved compatibility with high-performance heat sinks for superior cooling capabilities.
The integrated GeForce 9300 graphics processor receives enhancements that take the energy-efficient graphics processor to greater heights of performance. The performance enhancements begin with a 22-percent increase in the engine clock and followed with a 14-percent increase in shader clock for increased performance in the latest DirectX 10, DirectCompute, OpenGL 3.2 and NVIDIA CUDA games and applications.
"Tweaking graphics processors to extract every ounce performance possible is what we do best at ZOTAC. With our new GeForce 9300-ITX WiFI, we're extending the extensive tweaking and tuning to our mini-ITX platforms," Mr. Berger added.
The enhanced ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi receives a new dual-link DVI output that supports monitors with resolutions up to 2560x1600. With the new dual-link DVI output, users can experience extreme HD resolutions when using the integrated GeForce 9300 graphics processor.
It's time to play with the new tweaked and tuned ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi.
General details
"ZOTAC was the world's first manufacturer to provide users with high-performance mini-ITX platforms with PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion that made no compromises for performance. Our latest ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi, GF9300-I-E, takes our award winning formula of combining performance with a small form factor and supercharges it to make the world's fastest mini-ITX platform available," said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC International.
The range of voltage options allow for overvolting to increase overclocking capabilities or undervolting for greater energy-efficiency. The tweaked and tuned ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E) is designed to accommodate large heat sinks with ease for improved compatibility with high-performance heat sinks for superior cooling capabilities.
The integrated GeForce 9300 graphics processor receives enhancements that take the energy-efficient graphics processor to greater heights of performance. The performance enhancements begin with a 22-percent increase in the engine clock and followed with a 14-percent increase in shader clock for increased performance in the latest DirectX 10, DirectCompute, OpenGL 3.2 and NVIDIA CUDA games and applications.
"Tweaking graphics processors to extract every ounce performance possible is what we do best at ZOTAC. With our new GeForce 9300-ITX WiFI, we're extending the extensive tweaking and tuning to our mini-ITX platforms," Mr. Berger added.
The enhanced ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi receives a new dual-link DVI output that supports monitors with resolutions up to 2560x1600. With the new dual-link DVI output, users can experience extreme HD resolutions when using the integrated GeForce 9300 graphics processor.
It's time to play with the new tweaked and tuned ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi.
General details
- New tweaked and tuned ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E)
- Award winning ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi gets enhanced
- NVIDIA GeForce 9300 chipset
o 16 CUDA processors
o GPU clock: 580 MHz
o Shader clock: 1400 MHz - Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Extreme, Pentium, Celeron compatible
- LGA775 socket
- Up to 1333 MHz front-side bus
- PCI Express 2.0 x16 expansion
- Dual-link DVI output (up to 2560x1600)
- Enhanced overclocking options
o CPU voltage: [-0.1-volts up to +0.3-volts]
o Chipset voltage: [1.10-volts up to 1.25-volts]
o Memory voltage: [1.80-volts up to 2.10-volts] - 3 SATA 3.0 Gb/s + 1 eSATA w/RAID 0, 1, 0+1 & 5 support
- Wake-on USB support
- Polymer capacitors
- Internal S/PDIF audio output header
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Onboard 802.11b/g WiFi
- NVIDIA CUDA technology
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
- Microsoft DirectX 10 with Shader Model 4.0 compatible
- OpenGL 3.2 compatible
- Mini-ITX form factor
17 Comments on Zotac Announces GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi (GF9300-I-E) LGA-775 Motherboard
I wonder if they'll release a broken BIOS for this one too.... since there's no floppy drive and no support for USB bios recovery. :ohwell:
When it does work though, it's predecessor is about as high end as mini itx gets and it does perform well. The 9300 integrated is on par with a discrete HD 2400 Pro.
The dual link DVI they're advertising was added with an earlier board revision of the previous one. The heatsink's also a different color... maybe a little smaller too (which is probably a good thing, but the previous one ran hot if the CPU fan didn't provide much air).
Still seems only like minor incremental improvements... still a good product I suppose, but I'd like to see more.
was the old one a 9300 as well, or a different model?
i havent been keeping a close enough eye on these boards
Yes, the older version had the same GPU/northbridge. Also looking through the bios you get a few differences, the CPU and memory can now be lowered in voltage, my board only offers +.3V on the CPU (no undervolt options) and only down to 1.9V on the memory. The GPU is clocked much higher in the new version though, the old version is 450/1200, so it sounds like the northbridge may have gotten a die shrink. That would explain the higher clocks and smaller heatsink without much of a layout change.
How can that be read any other way?
I wonder if they'll release a broken bios for this (infers that they have for the previous boards), since theres no floppy drive and no support for USB bios recovery (the two obvious methods for bad BIOS flash recovery)
Now they've reached I-E and have a faster GPU too.... I still think it's die shrink or binning for lower voltage related because mine runs pretty hot at the lower clocks....
I really shouldn't read manuals or post before my first cup of coffee...