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1. frans on September 29th, 2009 1:38 pm

   no HD video playback 1080p
   no propper settings in the bios (fsb)

   to bad

   i have 2 of them 30 day`s
   to bad

   if jou want a real HD video at 1080p bay the zotac ion it wil preform
   as the
   IPX7A-ION wil with a propper bios update
   ???

2. Tony on September 29th, 2009 2:56 pm

   Hi Frans,

   I’m afraid I don’t understand your concern – the IPX7A can play 1080p content, provided it is in a supported format and you use the right software (the Zotac has the same limitations).

   The FSB limitation is a result of the Atom CPU.

3. Frans on October 15th, 2009 8:29 am

   i now the formats of 1080p

   The FSB limitation is a result of the Atom CPU.
   the same cpu on the zotac !? limitation no
   limitation WAY its the same cpu and chips

   the IPX7A no sttings

   the zotac no limitation on fsb settings
   are pressent
   and works at 2.1 Ghz
   no errors

   want a bios update for the IPX7A fsb
   settings

   are you telling my that zotac cant doe that
   i am now working on 1 zotac ion at 2.1ghz stabel

   same software config IPX7A as zotac
   IPX7A at 1080p drops frames audio drops of (1.6Ghz)
   zotac propper 1080p (2.1Ghz)

4. tony f. on October 15th, 2009 11:36 am

   Frans-

   Without more information on your setup (software being used, video formats, codecs) I’m afraid I can’t really help you. The whole point of ION is that everything should work together to offload graphics-intensive tasks to the GPU, thus rendering the CPU performance irrelevant.

   The IPX7A has the exact same performance as a stock Zotac – we’ve benchmarked both of them in-house and had 1080p content play on both without any of the issues you’re describing (H.264 encoded Matroska files using VLC player and FFMPEG or CoreAVC codecs). If you’re using everything correctly, there should be no need to overclock the CPU using FSB timings (which Zotac does offer in their BIOS and the IPX7A does not). If you’re trying to play CPU-dependent Flash video, then you will run into trouble with both systems – even the overclocked Zotac) until Flash 10.1 is released with support for hardware acceleration.

   We have been working with the IPX7A manufacturer to add certain features to the BIOS (RAID support, disabling hyper-threading, improved power-on characteristics) and post the updated files on the IPX7A product page on our website. We haven’t seen a real need for the FSB adjustments on the Zotac board, so we haven’t requested that this be included on the IPX7A.

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