I promised over a month ago some photos of my custom HTPC, so here they are: The box is running Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) and XBMC which takes advantage of the ION’s PureVideo capabilities via VDPAU.

Yesterday I received a new motherboard for my HTPC: it’s a Zotac ION C which has a passively cooled Atom N230 CPU and a NVIDIA 9400 GPU which supports hardware-accelerated H.264/VC-1 1080p video with very little CPU usage. It’s so quiet now I will take pictures and post them eventually.