ASRock ION 3D 152D Reviews

Expert review by : Jake Mete (pureoverclock)

ASRock ION 3D Blu-ray HTPC

An impressive and tiny all-in-one HTPC.

As multimedia technologies and uses become more prolific and part of our daily lives, consumers are looking for products that fill more than one role. Historically, small motherboards with integrated chips and graphics have typically been, well,...

Dec, 2010

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Update

Newegg repace the first unit arrived DOA. The second unit has worked flawlessly. 3D video does work using Arcsoft TotalMedia 5 as the media player. Out-putting to a Panasonic 50" plasma TV

PowerDVD hasn't worked with 3D. I purchased the software, not the trial vesion supplied with the unit

Feb, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

DOA

None

Won't power up

Feb, 2011

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

slick little box!

I have not used it for playing high definition movies so I don't know how well it works for that. I'm just using it for basic computing, word processing, web surfing, youtube, etc, and it works great for those things.

It's reasonably quiet ; Sturdy construction and everything seems to work

I tried installing Ubuntu and the wireless connection did not work out of the box. I made some feeble attempts to get it working but didn't have a lot of time for it. I ended up installing Windows 7 so it wasn't an issue for me. One small annoyance in...

Jan, 2011

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