Anyone else have an E-350/C-60 rig? What do you use it for?

[VirtualLarry]

Just curious how many of us own or have owned a Brazos/Zacate rig.

I currently own two, as "backup" PCs. One of them crunches Correlizer (BOINC). One of them isn't hooked up right now.

I also have an Acer Aspire One 722 Netbook, with a C-60 CPU in it.

I can stand, barely, using the E-350 rigs for basic stuff. Though I do prefer my Sandy Bridge based main desktop rig and laptop.

If you do own one, please include the reasons behind purchasing it.

I purchased mine basically for the low power consumption. Although my experience with SB chips leads me to believe that under normal loads, SB is just as low-power as Brazos.

 

[Concillian]

File server. Just sits there behind my desk doing very little but being on 24x7 and being very quiet about it. No keyboard or mouse are normally hooked up, but I occasionally do hook one up to download OS updates.

It serves my squeezebox MP3s and it's where we put our digital pictures, home movies, documents, etc... Every day at 5am it wakes up the other hard drive, backs up any information that changed in the last 24 hours onto it, then puts it back to sleep.

I don't really ever use it in the sense of like browsing the web or anything. It's completely perfect for how I use it. It pulls about 30W from the wall according to my kill-a-watt, which is considerably less than the 5 year old system it replaced, and even less than my Comcast DVR does.

 

[NTMBK]

C-60 netbook here. Picked it up because I need something portable to take away on holiday, and I got it discounted at £100. :O

 

[ninaholic37]

I use my C-50 mostly to watch movies/anime at the library. Use my Atom N2600 normally at home.

Anyone know what difference between C-60 and C-70 is? Win8 compatibility? I heard it can finally run Netflix full HD smoothly with the included Netflix app.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Anyone know what difference between C-60 and C-70 is?

HD 6290 vs HD 7290.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Anyone know what difference between C-60 and C-70 is? Win8 compatibility? I heard it can finally run Netflix full HD smoothly with the included Netflix app.

That would be an improvement. I wonder if that Netflix app would run on the C-60 too.

TBH, I hadn't heard of the C-70's existence until now.

 

[Icecold]

E-350 runs my HTPC. I had ran it previously with a Core2Duo E6600, and then later a Pentium Dual Core E5400. I saw a great deal on a Foxconn barebones unit with an E-350 in it and knew it'd be smaller, quieter and use a lot less power than my previous HTPC. While I know the other 2 processors I had in there were a lot faster, I do not notice any difference for what i use it for, and while setting it up I could see it would be adequate for 'everyday' web browsing, but may be somewhat frustrating at times.

 

[dma0991]

Got it for free. Using my E-350 desktop as a secondary rig which doesn't get used very often as it is at my parent's house. Would probably rip out the E-350 motherboard for a LGA1155 motherboard pretty soon. The E-350 will probably converted to a server.

 

[Lonyo]

E-350 runs my HTPC. I had ran it previously with a Core2Duo E6600, and then later a Pentium Dual Core E5400. I saw a great deal on a Foxconn barebones unit with an E-350 in it and knew it'd be smaller, quieter and use a lot less power than my previous HTPC. While I know the other 2 processors I had in there were a lot faster, I do not notice any difference for what i use it for, and while setting it up I could see it would be adequate for 'everyday' web browsing, but may be somewhat frustrating at times.

Do you know how much power the system actually uses?
I can get a Pentium dual core (SB based) close to 20w idle , but it is quite costly to do so (PicoPSU etc), or around 25w with a less expensive PSU.

Does anyone have power meters to indicate what a fairly barebones Zacate/Brazos runs out of the box?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

HD 6290 vs HD 7290.

Absolutely none what-so-ever. Its just a re-brand, exact same Brazos chip... :|

I currently have two C60M1-I boards. One is running my NAS, the other is powering an XP-box. Due to occasional need for WinXP. The pun was intended...

 

[Zap]

Absolutely none what-so-ever. Its just a re-brand, exact same Brazos chip... :|

Bu bu bu but only Nvidia does that?!?!?

I have three. Two are collecting dust. Third one is my low powered file and print server.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

Had a C-50 Acer AO722. It was sufficient for word processing and internet browsing, but I never used it for media purposes. Battery life still lasts a good 4 hours after a year of heavy use, though I undervolted it from the get-go.

It's my mother's now.

 

[pc999]

You could install Linux and get a much better web browsing and multimedia experience!

Maybe even play some Steam games for Linux.

 

[zCypher]

Had an E350 lenovo x120e. Was too horribly slow even after putting 8GB RAM and an SSD in there. Ended up selling it.

 

[krumme]

Had a small HP dm1z i think, 11.6 e450, used it for family traveling, because it didnt matter if it was stolen. Was 3.5 times faster than the Atom it replaced - yikes, you remember the 10" low res stuff ? - , but still a little to slow for my taste for normal office use. One of the kids prefered the machine to her now former 2.5Ghz core 2 duo with ssd, just because of the smaller size. Its the way it goes guys. She use it for everything, even for editing videos. I need a quad core IB overclocked with a fast 256Gb ssd for that kind of job. I think speed is more about the person than the processor but i know what is selling.

The future brings more zakate like speed but with even smaller price and battery usage. Perhaps the quad core jaguar will help a little bit, but thats not going to sell most. Its going to ARM V15 speed and Jaguar for the high end

I mean my wife wouldnt notice for a second if the processor in her quad core sb notebook was replaced by a zakate. She can not tell the difference between that highend machine and her former core duo. Design, colour and - you know - size matters most.

 

[Xpage]

I have a E350 running my HTPC. I wanted something that sipped power and could record TV and play netflix, it does both, onyl cavet is netflix HD stutters too much so I just run it non HD. Maybe when jaguar comes out I will get a new one.


Second E350 I saw on sale at fry's for ~59, so I had to take it home with me, put in some cheap DDR1600 ram, put it in a Fry's HTPC case, added some old fans and an old HDD, gave it t my father as a HTPC for him to use and watch netflix on.

Next one will go to replace his old Thunderbird rig he still uses, at least it heats his home in the winter

 

[ninaholic37]

You could install Linux and get a much better web browsing and multimedia experience!

Maybe even play some Steam games for Linux.

I might try this. Which version of Linux would you recommend for a netbook? And how hard is it to set up? Since all I use mine for is mostly web browsing / watching videos, a light OS sounds like a good fit.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I run a linux webserver on a C-50 laptop
It idles at 9 watts

 

[gigatexal]

i had an e-350 paired with a cheap-o mobo and a hd5450 and couldn't get hd movies to play properly so i scrapped it and went way overkill - i3 8gb ram ssd etc and it's playing hd movies on integraded hd2000 graphics yay!

 

[Torn Mind]

i had an e-350 paired with a cheap-o mobo and a hd5450 and couldn't get hd movies to play properly so i scrapped it and went way overkill - i3 8gb ram ssd etc and it's playing hd movies on integraded hd2000 graphics yay!

An i3 is not overkill, just "mainstream". It's just that the E-350's HD mojo is completely dependent on hardware acceleration. Without it, it's CPU is quickly stymied.

 

[Chiropteran]

I have an e-450 based netbook, which is slightly faster version of the e-350. It's tiny and the battery lasts plenty long. SSD makes things a lot more snappy than they would be otherwise, in some ways it feels quicker than much faster laptops with spindle drives. Great for basic computing needs, not really useful for modern gaming but neither is any computer of it's size.

 

[JWade]

e-350 itx system, used for hulu, netflix and facebook on our living room TV