ZOTAC released the world’s first NVIDIA ION upgrade kits today. Each kit consists of a ZOTAC small form factor (Mini-ITX or Mini-DTX) motherboard and a PCI Express x1 ION graphics card.
At the time of this writing the following four kits are available: ZOTAC NM10-ITX (pictured), NM10-DTX, nForce 610i-ITX, or GeForce 6100-ITX. These translate to the NM10-A-E, NM10-B-E, NF610i-K-E, or GF6100-E-E motherboards.
An excerpt from the ZOTAC press release:
A ZOTAC ION graphics card with 16 unified shaders and 512MB of DDR3 memory empowers the ZOTAC ION Upgrade Kits with high-end features such as NVIDIA CUDA and PureVideo HD technologies, DirectX 10.1, DirectCompute, OpenGL and OpenCL compatibility for a high-performance and feature rich experience.
High definition digital content playback is where the ZOTAC ION Upgrade Kits shine, with hardware acceleration for many popular video formats such as AVC, VC-1, MPEG-4, DivX and many more. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 acceleration enables the ZOTAC ION Upgrade Kits to playback streaming high definition Internet video perfectly for flawless video and audio quality.
Other details provided:
- ZOTAC ION graphics card
- Engine Clock: 589 MHz
- 16 Unified Shaders
- Shader Clock: 1402 MHz
- 512MB DDR3 memory
- Memory Clock: 790 MHz
- 64-bit Memory interface
- PCI Express x1
- Low profile form factor
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
- NVIDIA CUDA technology
- HDMI, DVI & VGA outputs
- HDMI 1.3a compliant
- xvYCC Color and Deep Color support
- HDCP compliant
- Microsoft DirectCompute ready
- Adobe Flash Player 10.1 decode acceleration
- OpenCL compliant
- Microsoft DirectX 10.1 with Shader Model 4.1 compatible
- OpenGL 3.2 compatible
- Microsoft Windows 7 with premium Aero user interface ready
- ZOTAC ION Upgrade Kits includes ZOTAC NM10-A-E, NM10-B-E, NF610i-K-E, or GF6100-E-E platforms
No details on pricing are available at this time.
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