I tried a variety of tests with the ION ITX A Series to check it's desktop, AV and gaming credentials.

Initially i wanted to consider raw hardware performance and desktop capability.

I used Everest's trial version to check performance details:


Everest.

OCCT was used to monitor temperatures at idle and load:



Stock PCMark05 score @ 1280x1024

Physics and 3D 48.94 FPS
3D - Pixel Shader 74.55 FPS
Web Page Rendering 1.19 Pages/s
File Decryption 14.83 MB/s
2D Graphics Memory - 64 Lines 513.19 FPS
HDD - General Usage 3.35 MB/s
Multithreaded Test 2
Text Edit 40.83 Pages/s
Image Decompression 7.96 MPixels/s
Multithreaded Test 3
File Compression 2.91 MB/s
File Encryption 13.17 MB/s
HDD - Virus Scan 37.39 MB/s
Memory Latency - Random 16 MB 6.66 MAccesses