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by jdmc
Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:47 pm
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: D201gly2: product and SPCR review discussion
Replies: 398
Views: 588732

Re: SPCR's review: Intel D201GLY2 Mini-ITX mainboard

SPCR's review: Intel D201GLY2 Mini-ITX mainboard Nice review, it's great to see more information out there about these boards. One thing that I've found though, is that the D201GLY2 actually uses more power than the D201GLY (IIRC the German review posted earlier in this thread reported the same thi...
by jdmc
Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:03 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Intel D201GLY: cheap, low power mini-ITX
Replies: 183
Views: 213957

On your board the CPU fan header is a fixed 12V...... Correct. ......but the case fan header is temperature controlled, and can be controlled by Speedfan without conflicting with the on-board control, which cannot be changed or disabled in the BIOS? It seems that Speedfan overrides the on-board con...
by jdmc
Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:41 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Intel D201GLY: cheap, low power mini-ITX
Replies: 183
Views: 213957

After much consideration I finally decided to purchase this board to replace my 5 year old Epia 800. I've been running it for about 2 days in the same Morex Cubid 2677 that the Via board occupied, but I had to replace the ~50 watt power supply with an 80 watt since the 3.5" hard drive would not spin...
by jdmc
Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:23 am
Forum: CPUs and Motherboards
Topic: Intel D201GLY: cheap, low power mini-ITX
Replies: 183
Views: 213957

I found a pretty in-depth review of the board from a Japanese site, including both power consumption and benchmarks compared to the C3 and Sempron 3000+

Translated article.

Original article: http://blog.livedoor.jp/materialistica/ ... 48938.html
by jdmc
Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:54 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: [fluorescent] bulb alternatives?
Replies: 18
Views: 10530

Energy saving compact fluorescent (spiraled, loop, ...) bulbs are powered by inverters. Almost all are silent, but some crappy models have a high pitched whine. Normal fluorescent bulbs, powered by ballasts, have a 60hz --or 50hz depending on the region-- buzz and also flicker at line frequency. You...