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Atom 230 — Intel — WikiChip

Atom 230 is an ultra-low power 64-bit x86 single-core microprocessor introduced by Intel in mid-2008. The 230 is specifically designed for nettops and various other mobile internet connected devices. This processor, which was fabricated on Intel’s 45 nm process, was based on the Bonnell microarchitecture. The Atom 230 operates at 1.6 GHz with a TDP of 4 W operating over a QDR FSB operating at 533 MT/s.

Contents

• 1 Cache
• 2 Memory controller
• 3 Graphics
• 4 Features
• 5 Documents
  • 5.1 Datasheets
  • 5.2 Other

Main article: Bonnell § Cache

[Edit/Modify Cache Info]

Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 56 KiB 0.0547 MiB 57,344 B 5.340576e-5 GiB L1I$ 32 KiB 0.0313 MiB 32,768 B 3.051758e-5 GiB 1×32 KiB 8-way set associative   L1D$ 24 KiB 0.0234 MiB 24,576 B 2.288818e-5 GiB 1×24 KiB 6-way set associative write-back L2$ 512 KiB 0.5 MiB 524,288 B 4.882812e-4 GiB     1×512 KiB 8-way set associative

Memory controller[edit]

This processor has no integrated memory controller.

Graphics[edit]

This processor has no integrated graphics.

Features[edit]

[Edit/Modify Supported Features]

	Supported x86 Extensions & Processor Features
	MMX MMX Extension EMMX Extended MMX Extension SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 Supplemental SSE3 x86-16 16-bit x86 x86-32 32-bit x86 x86-64 64-bit x86 Real Real Mode Protected Protected Mode SMM System Management Mode FPU Integrated x87 FPU NX No-eXecute HT Hyper-Threading

Documents[edit]

Datasheets[edit]

• Atom 230 Datasheet, April 2010

Other[edit]

• Atom 200 Series Specification Update, April 2010
• Atom 200 Series Thermal and Mechanical Design Guidelines, June 2008

Facts about «Atom 230 — Intel»

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release price	$ 29.00 (€ 26.10, £ 23.49, ¥ 2,996.57) +
s-spec	SLB6Z +
s-spec (qs)	QGZR +
series	200 +
smp max ways	1 +
socket	BGA-437 +
tdp	4 W (4,000 mW, 0.00536 hp, 0.004 kW) +
technology	CMOS +
thread count	2 +
transistor count	47,212,207 +
word size	64 bit (8 octets, 16 nibbles) +

Atom 230 — Intel — WikiChip

Atom 230 is an ultra-low power 64-bit x86 single-core microprocessor introduced by Intel in mid-2008. The 230 is specifically designed for nettops and various other mobile internet connected devices. This processor, which was fabricated on Intel’s 45 nm process, was based on the Bonnell microarchitecture. The Atom 230 operates at 1.6 GHz with a TDP of 4 W operating over a QDR FSB operating at 533 MT/s.

Contents

• 1 Cache
• 2 Memory controller
• 3 Graphics
• 4 Features
• 5 Documents
  • 5.1 Datasheets
  • 5.2 Other

Main article: Bonnell § Cache

[Edit/Modify Cache Info]

Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 56 KiB 0.0547 MiB 57,344 B 5.340576e-5 GiB L1I$ 32 KiB 0.0313 MiB 32,768 B 3.051758e-5 GiB 1×32 KiB 8-way set associative   L1D$ 24 KiB 0.0234 MiB 24,576 B 2.288818e-5 GiB 1×24 KiB 6-way set associative write-back L2$ 512 KiB 0.5 MiB 524,288 B 4.882812e-4 GiB     1×512 KiB 8-way set associative

Memory controller[edit]

This processor has no integrated memory controller.

Graphics[edit]

This processor has no integrated graphics.

Features[edit]

[Edit/Modify Supported Features]

	Supported x86 Extensions & Processor Features
	MMX MMX Extension EMMX Extended MMX Extension SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 Supplemental SSE3 x86-16 16-bit x86 x86-32 32-bit x86 x86-64 64-bit x86 Real Real Mode Protected Protected Mode SMM System Management Mode FPU Integrated x87 FPU NX No-eXecute HT Hyper-Threading

Documents[edit]

Datasheets[edit]

• Atom 230 Datasheet, April 2010

Other[edit]

• Atom 200 Series Specification Update, April 2010
• Atom 200 Series Thermal and Mechanical Design Guidelines, June 2008

Facts about «Atom 230 — Intel»

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bus type	FSB +
chipset	Calistoga +
clock multiplier	12 +
core count	1 +
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core model	112 +
core name	Diamondville +
core stepping	C0 +
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cpuid	106C2 +
designer	Intel +
die area	25.964 mm² (0.0402 in², 0.26 cm², 25,963,800 µm²) +
die length	7. 94 mm (0.794 cm, 0.313 in, 7,940 µm) +
die width	3.27 mm (0.327 cm, 0.129 in, 3,270 µm) +
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s-spec (qs)	QGZR +
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smp max ways	1 +
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Intel Atom 230 Drivers & Specs 2022

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Atom 230 is a mobile processor from Intel released on June 3, 2008 and is no longer in produced . It belongs to the Atom family and is built on the Diamondville architecture. The processor uses an Intel BGA 437 socket and an unknown PCI express controller. 45 nm process technology is used in production.

The processor has 1 and 2 cores and 2 threads, respectively, and the base frequency is 1600 MHz. It supports unknown memory and L1 64K (per core) and L2 512K (per core) caches.

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Characteristics

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17 SSSE3

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XD bit

HTT

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Acer Aspire Revo R3600 All-In-One Entertainment Center GECID.

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In today’s review, we will consider another implementation of a fairly successful NVIDIA ION platform on the example of the finished Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop. Most recently, we tested the ZOTAC IONITX-A motherboard with a “soldered” dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor, where we examined in detail the architecture features of the NVIDIA ION platform and noted its main advantages compared to the Intel 9 system logic competing in this class45GC+ICH7M. This time we will have the opportunity to compare the performance of NVIDIA ION system with Intel Atom 330 dual core processor and Intel Atom 230 single core processor. In addition, using Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop, we will try to play HD video and run some 3D games. To better demonstrate the capabilities, we even shot a few videos, so we hope this will make our review more complete and interesting.

It is noteworthy that, despite a certain interest in devices of this class, there are not very many such models, especially when compared with laptops. This is mainly due to the lack of an optical drive in the device, which immediately indicates that the nettop should be at least the second computer in the house. Data can be transferred to the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 entertainment center in many ways, including an Ethernet network, 802.11b/g/e-Draft wireless Wi-Fi network, as well as using external drives connected to USB and External SATA ports.

Acer Aspire Revo R3600 motherboard specification:

Manufacturer	Acer
Model	Aspire Revo R3600
Chipset	NVIDIA ION
Processor	Intel Atom 230 (1.6 GHz), Hyper-Threading
System bus, MHz	533
Used memory	DDR2- 800
Memory support	2 x 240-pin dual-channel architecture DIMMs up to 4 GB
Hard disk	160 GB Serial ATA II (Hitachi HTS543216L9A, 5400 RPM, 2. 5″)
VGA	NVIDIA GeForce 9400M up to 896MB Support for DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0, Pixel Shader 4.0
HDTV	720p, 1080i, 1080p
Sound subsystem	Realtek ALC662 audio codec 7.1-channel High-Definition Audio over HDMI
LAN support	Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps
Wireless network	802.11b/g/e-Draft Wi-Fi on Atheros AR5007EG controller
External I/O ports	1 x VGA 1 x HDMI 1 x eSATA 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports 1 x LAN (RJ45) 2 audio jacks
4-in-1 card reader	MultiMedia Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick
Software	Microsoft Office 2007 Trial with Microsoft Works 8. 51 Acer GameZone eSobi McAfee Internet Security Suite 2009 (Trial) Adobe Reader
Dimensions, mm	180 x 180 x 30 (without stand)
Power supply	65 W power supply
Compliance with specifications	PC 2001, ENERGY STAR 5.0
Certification	FCC, CE, BCMI, CCC, C-Tick, ETL, Nemko
Equipment	USB keyboard and mouse Instruction manual 3D remote pointer IR receiver Two batteries Delta Electronics ADP-65JH DB 65W power supply Four screw monitor mount Stand
Manufacturer website	http://www. acer.co.uk/

The packaging of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 entertainment center is stylish, but without much note regarding its performance. The front shows only the appearance of the device.

Some of the features are listed on a separate label. From here we learn that the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 comes with a 160 GB hard drive and 2 GB of RAM. If the latter can be attributed to pluses, then the former cannot be called a great advantage, especially considering the volume occupied by films in HD formats.

As expected, some instructions can be found with the Acer Aspire Revo R3600.

The power supply of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 is the same as that of many laptops, external and, not least, fanless, which means it is silent.

The power supply used by a very common and well-known manufacturer Delta Electronics ADP-65JH DB has a power of 65 watts. If we roughly calculate the power consumption of the entire Acer Aspire Revo R3600 system, then the source power of 65 W should be more than enough. For example, the ultra-efficient 45nm single-core Intel Atom 230 processor consumes only 4W, while the NVIDIA ION chipset, which is made using a 65nm process technology, is included in a 12W TDP. This also includes the power consumption of the hard drive, which in the worst case will be 7 W, as well as the needs of various microcircuits, controllers and a cooling fan, but their share in power consumption is not very large.

Also bundled with the Acer Aspire Revo R3600, you can find a fairly comfortable keyboard and optical mouse. Both devices are specially designed with a small size and a USB connection connector.

The keyboard, judging by the layout and execution, is a stripped-down, so to speak, «notebook» variation. The buttons on the keyboard are soft with little travel, and are pressed almost silently. Just like on laptops, there is an «Fn» key, which activates special functions on the function keys.

But the 3D manipulator, which even we meet for the first time and therefore seemed very unusual, will most likely cause the greatest attention among users.

Immediately this remote spatial manipulator can be easily mistaken for a conventional remote control with a few buttons and a cursor.

But if you unfold one of its parts, you get something resembling a pistol in shape, and with a «trigger». Indeed, the spatial manipulator looks unusual. With it, you can change the position of the cursor on the screen.

The «trigger» on the manipulator functions as the left mouse button. Thus, you can easily navigate through the «tree» of directories right from the sofa and launch various applications, open the same videos. It turns out a very convenient and necessary thing for the media center, which makes it more complete.

Nettop Acer Aspire Revo R3600 is supposed to be installed next to the monitor on a transparent plastic stand. But much more interesting is the ability to fix it on the back of the monitor. How exactly, we will show below.

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 has a very compact and stylish design in white and black. On the top side there is a large power button with a built-in backlight, but there is no forced restart button (Reset) familiar to «desktop» systems.

Next to the «Power» button, a USB port is displayed, which is closed with a rubber plug. On the top of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 is another USB port and a ventilation grill through which the built-in fan throws heated air out. The case does not have other special ventilation grilles through which the air, respectively, must get inside. Moreover, the case itself is assembled very tightly, without obvious gaps. It seems to us that it would be advisable to make a ventilation grill on one of the sides of the case, due to this it would be possible to optimally choose the direction for the cooling air flow and it would be easier for the fan to pump air.

On the front of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop is a 4-in-1 multi-format card reader that supports SD, MMC, MS and xD-Picture memory cards, as well as an eSATA port and headphone and microphone jacks .

On the back of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 are four USB ports, an RJ45 connector for network connections, a high-definition HDMI video interface port, an analog VGA video output, and a power supply connector. Note that the DVI-D digital video output is not implemented in the nettop, although the NVIDIA ION platform supports it.

You can save desk space by mounting the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop on the back of a monitor, although not all models allow this. The mount is screwed to the monitor body using four screws in specially provided holes used when mounting the monitor on the wall.

All that remains is to fasten the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 with two latches to the mount and you can connect all the necessary connectors. As you can see, the shape of the case and the mounting position are specially chosen so that the power cable and cables from permanently connected devices neatly go down.

In the upper part of the nettop, one USB port is likely to be occupied by the receiver of a remote 3D manipulator, and it will always be very convenient to insert a flash drive into the second USB connector. Note that the body of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop allows you to install it in the holder on any side, but it will be more convenient when the power button is located on the side of the monitor screen.

BIOS

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop BIOS is based on the AMI code. It is not at all replete with settings, as it was on the ZOTAC IONITX-A motherboard, which even allowed decent overclocking of the processor. Here, everything is at a minimum and there are no overclocking opportunities.

One of the interesting settings is the ability to change the size of the video buffer in RAM.

In the «PC Health Status» section, you can monitor:

• temperature of the processor and motherboard;
• fan speed;
• voltage value for RAM, processor, chipset and +5V line.

In addition, in this section, you can activate the automatic fan speed control «Smart Fan».

Intel Atom 230 Processor

The ultra-efficient single-core Intel Atom 230 processor was specially designed for netbooks. It does not have high performance, its frequency is 1600 MHz, and the L2 cache is only 512 KB, but the Intel Atom 230 has a very low power consumption of only 4 watts. This quality is very valuable for mobile devices, where it is required to provide the possibility of long battery life in office applications and the Internet. A feature of the Intel Atom 230 is the support for Hyper-Threading multithreading technology, despite the fact that the processor physically has one core, the Windows operating system will “see” two cores, and some programs will be executed in two threads, as a result of which they will receive some acceleration.

Intel Atom 230 processor specification:

Model	Intel Atom Processor 230
Marking	SLB6Z
Processor socket	PBGA437
Clock frequency, MHz	1600
Multiplier	12
Bus frequency, MHz	533
L2 cache size, KB	512
Core	Diamondville
Number of cores	1
Instruction support	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, EM64T
Supply voltage, V	0. 9-1.1625
Power dissipation, W	4
Critical temperature, °C	85.2
Process	45 nm
Technology support	Execute Disable Bit Hyper-Threading Technology

As you can see, Windows Vista rated the Intel Atom 230 processor as the «weakest link» in the system. But it’s hard to surprise anyone with this, since it is known from laptop testing that with low-performance single-core processors, the Windows Vista operating system tends to «think about it.» In the case of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop, a similar picture was observed — from time to time it was necessary to wait until the system “thinks up” something and returns to the user, especially this “annoys” immediately after it is loaded.

Integrated video card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Despite the fact that the GPU-Z utility has not yet been able to fully evaluate the GeForce 9400M video accelerator, we already know a lot about it. The GeForce 9400M core operates at 450 MHz, and for shader operations there are 16 unified pipelines operating at 1100 MHz. Such characteristics correspond to junior discrete accelerators. At the same time, the maximum resolution of the output analog signal is 2048×1536, and the digital one is 2560×1600. An absolute plus of the GeForce 9 GPU400M is support for hardware decoding of H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 formats, which will significantly offload the CPU when playing HD video.

RAM

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop has two 1 GB DDR2-800 Nanya NT1GT64UH8D0FN-AD memory modules. They work in dual-channel mode, but with rather large delays (timings) 6-6-6-18 2T.

Hard Drive Hitachi HTS543216L9A

The Acer Aspire Revo R3600 uses a Hitachi HTS543216L9A (5400 rpm) 160 GB small form factor 2. 5″ hard drive. In ACHI mode, it provides an average data transfer rate of about 55.7 MB / s

Benchmarking

We will compare the performance of Acer Aspire Revo R3600 first of all with the system on the motherboard GIGABYTE GA-GC230D, which is based on the system logic of Intel 945GC + ICH7M, as well as a system-on-board ZOTAC IONITX-A with an integrated dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor. In addition, from the differences between the systems, we note that the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop works with its own hard drive and RAM, which has large delays.

We used the following equipment for testing:

RAM	2x DDR2-800 1024MB Transcend or 1x DDR2-800 2048MB Transcend
Hard disk	Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST3500410AS), 500 GB, SATA-300
Optical drive	ASUS DRW-1814BLT SATA
Power supply	Chieftec CFT-500-A12S 500W, 120mm fan
Monitor	ASUS MK241H

Already in the first synthetic tests of PCMark’05 and CrystalMark, a certain advantage of the graphics accelerator of the NVIDIA ION platform compared to the Intel 945GC + ICH7M system logic can be seen. The disk subsystem on the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 has a lower performance due to the use of a slower hard drive, which is also smaller in volume.

In 3DMark tests, not to mention 3D games, the graphics advantage of the NVIDIA ION platforms becomes even more noticeable. At the same time, a platform with a dual-core Atom 330 processor looks preferable, but not by much.

To dilute the dry presentation in numbers, we tried to play on the Acer Aspire Revo nettop and recorded short videos about it.

The game Crysis at a low resolution of 800×600 and with minimal details, of course, theoretically, you can play, but you can’t call such a game comfortable, on average we recorded only 12 fps.

Since the game Crysis still can not be called simple for a not very powerful system, we launched the already quite outdated Serious Sam 2 game. that in a large location with a large number of «enemies» the fps level drops to 11-12 in moments, which, you see, is not very pleasant.

In addition, we launched the very processor-demanding game «Race Driver: GRID», but even the most devoted fans of it are unlikely to be able to play it on the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 — at the minimum resolution of 640×480, the frame rate is at the level of 5 per second .

HD video playback Video

While looking for more information about the Acer Aspire Revo nettop, we came across an interesting presentation video showing how HD video playback changes dramatically after enabling hardware decoding by the video accelerator. We tried to reproduce something similar on our own, although we admit that the idea was borrowed.

The difference really turns out to be very large if, before enabling support for NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, the movie «Jumper» (MPEG4 (h364), 1920×816, 23.98fps, DTS) was played in jerks, then after turning on the CPU load dropped to 30%, and the movie became just nice to watch.

While watching the movie «Predator 2» (MPEG4 (h364) 1920×1040, 23. 98fps, Dolby AC3), the CPU usage was even less than 20%. In addition, we played a few more “heavy” HD videos for the test, and all of them could be watched without problems thanks to NVIDIA PureVideo HD. Although, in fairness, we note that we immediately had to spend some time in order to select the optimal settings for the media player.

Wireless file transfer

Unfortunately, downloading a file wirelessly from another computer consumes almost all CPU resources, so while copying the file, you will definitely not be able to watch HD video, play games, or perform any resource-intensive tasks. At the same time, the speed of the wireless adapter itself cannot be called very high, which increases the time of forced inactivity.

Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop cooling system test

The cooling system in the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop is built on the principle of laptop analogues, that is, the radiator is cooled by one turbine-type fan, which immediately ejects air from the case. The maximum fan speed is 5500 rpm, at this speed it creates a fairly noticeable and clearly not comfortable noise level. But since the rotation speed is automatically controlled at the level of the nettop’s BIOS, it is very quiet when idle or while working in office applications. Actually, the FPU stress test of the processor causes an increase in the processor temperature by only 1-2°C, while the main source of heat is the NVIDIA ION system logic with an integrated video accelerator.

We tried to warm up the cooling system of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 with the «hairy donut» of the Furmark video system stability test package. In a relatively short period of time, the GPU temperature went from 73°C to 84°C, and the fan speed increased to 4400 rpm, but the noise level was average.

Conclusions

Today we found that the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 minicomputer can not only perform the functions of a regular nettop, but can also become a convenient HD-Video player due to the fairly powerful integrated graphics core NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, which supports H. 264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 hardware video decoding. Acer Aspire Revo R3600 also allows you to play some games that are not demanding on the capabilities of the graphics subsystem, but, nevertheless, this minicomputer cannot be called a full-fledged multifunctional entertainment center. The undoubted advantage of the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop is its compactness and the presence of an original 3D remote control that will nicely complement any multimedia center.

Most likely, the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 is the first bird on the very successful NVIDIA ION platform, but definitely not the last one. In the near future, we can assume the appearance of a model with a dual-core Intel Atom processor, since a single-core Intel Atom 230, although it is enough to play video in conjunction with an integrated graphics processor, but the work itself in the Windows Vista operating system is sometimes accompanied by minutes of forced waiting. And since there is already a dual-core processor Intel Atom 330, which is only $ 14 more expensive, the way to improve the nettop becomes quite obvious. Only in this way it will be possible to offer a truly universal solution, which will not only be a very expensive media player.

After all, if you are looking for a system specifically for playing high-definition video, then you will definitely pay attention to NMT network media tanks (which we will talk about shortly). The cost of such solutions is lower, they absolutely do not require settings for HD-Video playback, but they cannot boast of functionality and versatility. Namely, thanks to the wider possibilities, we can hope for an increase in interest in nettops, such as the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 tested today.

Advantages:

• currently the most productive integrated graphics core GeForce 9400M;
• DirectX 10 support;
• H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 hardware decoding;
• HDMI output;
• wireless support;
• handy remote 3D manipulator;
• keyboard and mouse included;
• eSATA port;
• gigabit network controller;
• very low power consumption;
• the presence of an absolutely silent power supply.