I sent a quick note to PoV asking about BIOS updates for USB booting and overclocking, looks like there wont be any: Dear sir Thank you for having our product The ION mainboard is a basic mainboard, and due that provided with a Basic bios also . For now there will not be released another bios with a...

Yeah the off state power use seems to be correct, but then its the same for my desktop usings Windows 7 "Hibernate". That uses 20w as well, the only way to get it to use zero is to use the power switch on the PSU. HHow do you measure power? This seems extremely odd. Sounds like its not actually Hob...

That doesn't sound good at all... Yeah, fortunately its on 24/7 so its not an issue. Can you check that? I mean what mobo uses power when switched off. That would start to really piss me off. Have you also looked at soft overclocking (SetFSB type programs). I asked POV about adding OC to BIOS but t...

I just did exatly what your looking for (although I used server 2008), see my PoV ION review.

The atom 330 has more than enough umph for file sharing

ilovejedd wrote:

StartledPancake wrote:Power consumption

18w Off

That doesn't sound good at all...

Yeah, fortunately its on 24/7 so its not an issue.

First of hello to you all, Ive taken quite a bit of info from the site and wanted to give a little back. Last week I picked up one of the first PoV Atom 330 ITX boards, which as some of you may know is paired up with an ION/9400M Nvidia chipset. The good Cheaper (ish)than the Zotac by about 35 euros...