CPT_MAC Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I wonder if anyone has successfully installed OSX retail with boot 132 or any other distr? I have not found any info here or in wiki so far. The advantage vs. Intel Atom board would be the Graphic NIVIDA GeForce 9400 HDMI, DVI, VGA out possible 4 GB of Ram WIFI N-Draft, 4 SATA / Raid 0, 1, 0+1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 I wonder if anyone has successfully installed OSX retail with boot 132 or any other distr? I have not found any info here or in wiki so far. The advantage vs. Intel Atom board would be the Graphic NIVIDA GeForce 9400 HDMI, DVI, VGA out possible 4 GB of Ram WIFI N-Draft, 4 SATA / Raid 0, 1, 0+1 . . yes, I have SL 10.6.1 1running on a Zotac ION 330 mobo w/ K64 w/ HTT disabled - no hyperthreading is a constant with OSX post-10.5.6 & the Atom 330. The supplied Atheros-chipset wireless N mini-pcie card is recognised & works as a native Airport adaptor - but only works w/ K32 - w/ K64 I am using a Broadcom BCM4321 card from a dead Macbook It was quite easy to install [given a working OSX install on another box]; but needs a *lot* of dsdt editing to work anything like as nicely as the Asrock ION 330. Nothing specifically useful - except perhaps some details of audio hacks for the ALC662 - can be gleaned from other folks' experiences with the Zotac 9300 Wi-Fi mini-ITX - judging by its dsdt, this has a very different BIOS - the ION-ITX's dsdt is in many ways similar to the Asrock ION 330 tho' *much* less OSX-friendly. Biggest hassle is not being able to use any USB device to install OSX - you have to disable "legacy USB" in the ION-ITX' BIOS to get things to work at all. You obv need a PS/2 keyboard & the relevant kext(s) to enable PS/2. . . . but yes; I'm working on this & have one setup as an extremely low-noise OSX86 system using a Crucial SSD boot HDD & the included, surprisingly refined fan @ 7v. The BIOS is very well setup for quite detailed tweaking. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1282390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Any chance you could run XBench on it, and post the link to your results online? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1283884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Any chance you could run XBench on it, and post the link to your results online? . . the XBench online database is down. Even if it wasn't; I don't think running an elderly 32-bit benching utility on a 64-bit system - I'm running 10.6.1 with K64 - with the boot volume on a good modern SSD is going to get us anywhere. I ran geekbench64 [purely computational cross-platform benchmark widely used nowadays] on the thing, running at its 24/7 stable 2GHz & 667MHz FSB & Memory clocks, & saw the number 1424 - this is roughly 60% or so of the 'score' of today's Mac mini, which feels about right. I'm using a Crucial SSD, which is somewhere around 3~4 times as fast overall as a modern 2.5" SATA HDD, so any benchtesting suite providing an overall 'score' is going to be heavily skewed. Video performance is tricky to judge; but I appear to have full hardware acceleration from the onboard 9400M, using the standard clock of 450MHz for the core. I'd say the thing was really brisk [due to the SSD], with perfectly tolerable computational performance - compiling Hardbrake on the thing takes about 4x as long as the same task on my 3GHz C2D Quad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1283972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiou Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 zotac ion 230 Results 31.23 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.6.1 (10B504) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model Macmini3,1 Drive Type WDC WD3200BEVT-26ZCT0 CPU Test 29.04 GCD Loop 58.04 3.06 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 18.45 438.34 Mflop/sec vecLib FFT 21.90 722.54 Mflop/sec Floating Point Library 48.47 8.44 Mops/sec Thread Test 49.71 Computation 42.46 860.22 Kops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 59.94 2.58 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 74.49 System 62.96 Allocate 73.41 269.57 Kalloc/sec Fill 85.56 4160.32 MB/sec Copy 44.77 924.65 MB/sec Stream 91.20 Copy 91.53 1890.47 MB/sec Scale 88.64 1831.30 MB/sec Add 103.64 2207.72 MB/sec Triad 83.30 1782.01 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 54.40 Line 61.02 4.06 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 48.40 14.45 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 67.71 5.52 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 30.53 770.05 beziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 136.32 8.53 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 17.20 Spinning Squares 17.20 21.82 frames/sec User Interface Test 15.61 Elements 15.61 71.65 refresh/sec Disk Test 64.02 Sequential 94.07 Uncached Write 83.90 51.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 105.98 59.96 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 77.87 22.79 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 120.11 60.37 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 48.52 Uncached Write 18.97 2.01 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 128.26 41.06 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 72.15 0.51 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 123.76 22.96 MB/sec [256K blocks] OpenGL is slow.. screen saver work, but cpu is stressed.. i use graphicsenabler on cham rc3 and pcefi 10.3 now, with legacy usb disabled, is ok.. good boot time, and shutdown ok! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1284753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 I'm building something really cool (IMO) with an ionitx-d-e. Shoarthing, what methods did you use to make your DSDT? Would you be willing to send it to me? Is it for the 8-13 bios? Okay here's what I'm doing: I bought an old grape tray loading iMac G3 on craigslist for $15, and using some pinouts I found online, rigged a wiring harness to adapt it's power supply to an ATX connector. It only has an 80 watt power supply, but I hooked up a 500GB 3.5 7200 rpm seagate drive, a slim dvd burner, and the zotac board, and it all runs! I'll have to see how long it keeps running when things get heavy though. Hooking up the internal crt is a simple matter on the old tray loading ones. I've already tested to make sure it will work using an adapter I have, but I'll make my own custom one when I start putting it all together. The sweetest part is that the screen is incapable of displaying the bios post screen's refresh rate and resolution combo, so I won't see anything until OS X starts loading, just like a real iMac! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1313710 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 That's awesome. I'd really love to see pictures of how you hooked that all up. Is that one of the older opaque colored units? I liked the clear plastic later model ones better, but still a very cool hack. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/176653-has-anyone-experience-with-the-zotac-ion-atom330-board/#findComment-1328978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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