Jetway comes as one of the many companies that comes with some new and unique features to really look at in any motherboard or other products that you would look at. Like the example of the USB market which they target the stylish market with people who like the bling and the fashion scene, but the Jetway NC92-330 a dual atom processor is the new small budget type platform form Intel to come up with the other part of the market to fill them with products for them to buy in relative budget cost rather than having to take up the processor and the motherboard separately, but the atom series comes an embedded CPU in the motherboard.
But the new NC92-330 motherboard and processor suite has a pair of atom processors clocked into the average 1.6GHz frequency and also a support of DDR2 800MHz memory which in this board has only one single channel port, so only a limit of about 2GB of memory stick in the system plus also the board can only accommodate a single PCI slot, not the graphics slot but an old one. Plus also the design layout of the board, an original green colour and also the bulk of the slot colour are just a yellow but most of the stuff the board looks more of the usual Mini ITX board small enough to fit any media case or just hide it in any place possible.
While the boards limited leverage on both of the expansion slots in the memory and the PCI slot, but the Atom dual core 330 series comes in more of a looking result of a hybrid look of the dual core 2 in the mainstream series placed into a say , in this $300 motherboard suite. We recommend plugging in the SATA ports first since they’re a little difficult to get to behind the PCI slot and memory. That single memory slot is a bit limiting too, but a 2GB module doesn’t cost much on its own and it’s not like you’ll need 4GB of RAM with an Atom anyway, otherwise you’re probably expecting it to do far too much.
Jetway doesn’t include Firewire and the audio is limited to the basic Realtek ALC662, so without S/PDIF there’s no way to get good sound out of it without investing in extra hardware. It does have Gigabit Ethernet however, which is at least an upgrade from the “standard” 10/100 on many Atom products. The performance of the Jetway board is generally better than the Shuttle X27-D but it’s all relative – for a “fast enough” CPU a few seconds here and there aren’t going to set the world on fire and for similar money a cheap AMD board and CPU can be bought and they will be a hell of a lot faster.
Having said that, Jetway appears to have made some nice improvements to the way it handles the memory controller on the 945GC northbridge, affording a more rounded memory performance with a much lower latency, given the limited memory bandwidth available. The low power side is particularly attractive, but again a few watts difference is not that much and easily dwarfed if an inappropriate or inefficient PSU is used.
