Atom mini-ITX bundle being introduced at 42 pounds

[razor2025]

Hmm.. couple this with $80 Istar Mini-ITX case, a cheap 2.5" SATA Laptop Drive ($40), a slim optical drive ($40), and 2GB DDR2 ($30), I can make a sub $300 mini PC to run OSX.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: razor2025
Makes perfect sense to me. The Atom is new chip with new process @ 45nm. The 945 north bridge chip is relatively old and uses older 65nm (or even 90nm) process. Thus, the cooling requirement will be higher for the northbridge, instead the CPU. It's interesting change from traditional cooling requirement, but I definitely welcome it.

My quad-core is 65nm, and if I turn up my case fans, I can passively cool it at stock speed. The 945 chipset debuted in May of 2005, so there's no way it's 65nm, and probably not even 90nm. It was still ignorant of them to use such an old chipset with a brand new processor, if you ask me. I mean, honestly, what's the point of a 4-5 watt CPU, if it's matched up with a 15 or 20 watt chipset?

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
but this atom chip and motherboard is meant for a full on pc right? someone else said they wanted one for a home entertainment system or something, how the heck would you be satisfied with that? i like the car pc's but how would you get the web?

2ways to get internet in cars.

blackberry tether did i spell that word right?

or you can get hspda feature and use your phone as an access point.

this is how ive been using internet at hotels which charge for the fee.

Believe me or not, but on a good signal with ATT, i get around 115kb/s download.

Not bad for ATT HSPDA.


This is why i want a more greener, and faster phone. Something that will last longer then 3 hours when im using the internet. :[

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: hans007
why bother running gigabit in the pci slot anyway, the slot is only 133mbps so its barely faster than 10/100.

Isn't PCI 133 MB/s ?, and Gigabit speed is around 100 MB/s....

So you could possible push gigabit speeds on a pci setup if nothing else is using the bus.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A LINK TO A MINI ITX CASE??

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A LINK TO A MINI ITX CASE??

Here's a whole bunch of them. I use the top one, the Apex MI-100, mostly because it let's me use a "normal", full sized (and full speed) optical drive.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A LINK TO A MINI ITX CASE??

My favorate place to shop for ITX stuff.

http://www.logicsupply.com/categories/cases/mini_itx


Incase anyones been wondering, ive been playing with laptop processors and laptop systems on desktop platform for quite some time. You cant get more power efficient then a lappy processor downvolted.

Im talking like 0.87Vcore Loaded on a T7300 @ 2.0ghz.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A LINK TO A MINI ITX CASE??

Mini-Box

Never shopped from there, but seems as if they're the manufacturer for a number of mini-ITX related products (like the PicoPSU) and they do sell to end users in single quantities, or in bulk for cheaper.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
COULD WE PLEASE HAVE A LINK TO A MINI ITX CASE??

Mini-Box

Never shopped from there, but seems as if they're the manufacturer for a number of mini-ITX related products (like the PicoPSU) and they do sell to end users in single quantities, or in bulk for cheaper.

mmmm i like there selection.

Hows the store tho zap?

 

[razor2025]

Darn, it looks like the stock Intel board has only 10/100 LAN. I was hoping they'd throw in gigabit LAN in there. It'll be perfect for small file and power efficient file server.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: Zap
Mini-Box

Never shopped from there

Hows the store tho zap?

Bolded.

 

[mooseracing]

mini-box is great. I've ordered form them many times.


I still don't think intel can match Via or Amd's Goede technology as far as wattaged used yet though.

It seems like everyone is interested in this even though there have been other options for quite awhile. For example I have a C-7 Via with dual gigabit running IPcop, I have AMD Geode 1.7Ghz running Server 2008 in Raid-0 for my fileserver. I have been looking at an Phenom in mini itx as well. Eaither way my two boards I doubt use more than 100 watts together even with 2 hard drives and a few small fans in my 1U case.