I'm thinking of buying one of these to serve as an HTPC.

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Dpmt January 27, 2011

I'm thinking of buying one of these to serve as an HTPC.

So I was wondering which is considered more powerful and which consumes more power, the AMD Fusion or Atom + Ion?

I looked around and didn't see any comparisons I liked.

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cass 2011-01-27 11:53:34

Since AMD Fusion is relatively new, we probably won't see too many benchmarks out there just yet.

With that said, I think I would opt for the Fusion version because Atom has just left a bad taste in my mouth. Blame my netbook for that.

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Dpmt 2011-01-27 19:09:19

What exactly left you so burnt by Atom? Ion would fix all the problems I have with my netbook, at cost of battery life of course.

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harri193 2011-01-27 20:54:44

Good question... Let me poke around

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Dpmt 2011-01-28 06:05:04

Found a decent review/ comparison. tbreak.com/tech/2011/01/zotac-zbox-blu-ray-ad03-ht...

The bigger power supply and alleged increased noise worry me, but I'm waiting for more reviews.

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Dpmt 2011-02-22 00:22:06

Hot Hardware took a look and found lower power consumption and increased performance in application other then games. Looks like I found a winner.

hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-Fusion-Hits-Retail-Zot...

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