The perfect board for my low power Sempron?
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 2:09 am
Good morning everyone! It's my first post here at SPCR, I already searched the forum and other pages but still could not find the solution for my problem.
I want to build a fanless or very quiet HTPC, mainly for timeshifting, watching videos etc. The Via Epia are too slow and expensive and so I purchased a low power Sempron 2600+, 25w for socket 754, which seems to be a very good tradeoff between power and heat. I already found a very promising µATX mainboard, the SL-K8M800I-RL by Soltek (click), which is supposed to have very good undervolting features.
But this mainboard isn't available in Germany anymore, the only shop who once offered it can't sell it now because of problems with the German division of Soltek. So I need to find another board for my precious mobile Sempron It has to be a µATX one, because I want to put the computer in a nice HTPC-enclosure. Of course it must support the mobile version of the cpu and also have some undervolting features to reduce the heat as much as possible.
One candidate could be the new s760GXm by Aopen, but it seems to lack the adjustable vcore.
I'd greatly appreciate anyone who can give me any tip for my project, especially a recommendation for compatible mainboards.
I want to build a fanless or very quiet HTPC, mainly for timeshifting, watching videos etc. The Via Epia are too slow and expensive and so I purchased a low power Sempron 2600+, 25w for socket 754, which seems to be a very good tradeoff between power and heat. I already found a very promising µATX mainboard, the SL-K8M800I-RL by Soltek (click), which is supposed to have very good undervolting features.
But this mainboard isn't available in Germany anymore, the only shop who once offered it can't sell it now because of problems with the German division of Soltek. So I need to find another board for my precious mobile Sempron It has to be a µATX one, because I want to put the computer in a nice HTPC-enclosure. Of course it must support the mobile version of the cpu and also have some undervolting features to reduce the heat as much as possible.
One candidate could be the new s760GXm by Aopen, but it seems to lack the adjustable vcore.
I'd greatly appreciate anyone who can give me any tip for my project, especially a recommendation for compatible mainboards.