The old concept behind a home theater PC was to create a system that would visually fit in with the other components which usually turns into a noisey mess because you’re cooling off some power hungry components.

ASRock’s ION 330-BD on the other hand uses an Intel Atom 330 dual core chip paired with Nvidia’s ION platform for some low-power and high-performance media playback. TweakTown has a look:

As far as noise goes, the system is super quiet at default settings at
around 25db. We used the ASRock EZ Overclocking feature in the BIOS to
overclock the Atom CPU from 1.6GHz to 2.1GHz and to be safe we
increased the fan speeds by using the “Overclocking” fan speed option.
This does increase the volume from the system, but it’s not that loud
and cannot even be noticed at all whilst playing a game or watching a
movie.

Overclocking, dual channel memory, well this is one of the most interesting nettop PCs since…ever.