atomz wrote:I noticed this doesnt have a ide for a slimline drive, is everyone using a standard Drive. Kind of effects the small form factor approach doesnt it?

Slimline optical drives with a MicroSATA port are slowly starting to appear, so I guess you'll just need a MicroSATA-to-SATA adaptor to connect them.

Suosaaski wrote:Installed a bit more RAM to suit the current level of load the setup is experiencing.

I hope you don't mind me asking, but is that Virtual Server 2005? And is this more a server instead of just a workstation? I guess you're running Windows Server 2003.

Thanks for your answer, don't hurry, it isn't urgent. I'm thinking of a new main system with an E8400 as well and if I could run that off of a 120w picopsu that would be awesome.

What you want as a AMD ADD3800IAA5CU. I know, that's what the dealers state as well but judging from the posts above this might not always mean you're really going to receive this particular CPU, but its 65W counterpart instead. Reading some of the ratings on the German dealers' sites, however, it ...

It's available in Germany. If anyone is still interested. http://geizhals.at/eu/a348367.html I've seen them too. Actually considering getting one to see if it undervolts to even less. (This would replace my yet-to-arrive Sempron in my yet-to-arrive Abit AN-M2.) However, reading that most people who...

That looks good. Very interesting to hear that you can power your setup by the picopsu and a 110w brick; is it stable at full load? Is the CPU undervolted and/or underclocked? I assume you don't use an internal optical drive. Are any on-board components disabled? Do you have any power consumption fi...

To provide a small update to this, I'll pair the Abit AN-M2 with a Sempron LE-1150 (2GHz stock) I got from eBay. The parts haven't arrived yet and I'll post results when I get them and assemble the system.

Seems the dual core Atom 330 (1.6GHz) will arrive soon. According to this link the new board will feature GigE, but be very similar to its single-core brother otherwise.

Thanks! I imagine a PicoPSU-90 should be fine if these are the chips you're considering. I'm actually going to attempt an upgrade to a 45nm Quad core, because based on all the info I can find, my power consumption wont change. When you build this system, be sure to report back on the final build, I...

ryboto, thanks for your comment. I'm watching an LE-1150 on eBay that comes with a Thermaltake TR2R1 which has a 92mm fan. I guess I can still undervolt this thing if it's too loud but does anyone have any comments about that cooler? Cooling an undervolted LE shouldn't be a problem at all. I was con...

QuietOC, thanks for the response. I've ruled out a dual core as it'll be overkill in that system. I'll also be using CrystalCPUID. So that leaves me with either a Sempron LE or an Athlon 64 LE. Do you think the Athlon would be the better choice in terms of undervoltability and low temperature? The i...

Hello, Update: System's been built. Check this post for results. I'm looking to replace my Intel D945GCLF. I like the Atom very much but the high power draw of the chipset has created the decision to sell the board/CPU and get something else. My main concern is to keep power draw as low as possible ...

A "45W TDP" Athlon 64 LE-1600 is $35. This is a full 1MB L2 cache AM2 chip. I should see what speed the LE-1620 can manage on just 0.800V. Me too, I'm considering replacing my D945GCLF/Atom setup with an undervolted AM2 as that would probably draw less power and be faster. Thinking of an undervolte...

Glad to see you were able to solve the problems. This is a HTPC you say? Could you provide some power consumption figures if possible?

I don't quite get what you mean by saying "[CPU] lacks RAID-5." Do you mean the boards most likely don't support it or the CPU won't be powerful enough to give satisfying read/write speeds from the array (if done in software)? You say you want to connect four SATA disks, so you'd need a board with a...

Sounds quite similar to Intel's D945GCLF but it has two DDR2/PCIe slots instead of one and no chipset fan which is appreciated. Otherwise, it looks to be more or less the same, being slightly bigger of course. It also has an Atom 230 which, unlike the more expensive N or Z variants, has a TDP of 4W....

theycallmebruce, unfortunately I have no experience with the Soekris boards (I just love small computers/mainboards, that's why I know about them :wink:), I pointed to them as they might fit your needs. They're primarily designed to be used as a firewall et al though and whereas they have an IDE por...

http://www.soekris.com

I haven't had a chance to play with one yet but they look promising. One to four ethernet ports, meant to be run headlessly (serial console is present), good Linux/BSD support. You may want to check if they have enough power for your needs (up to 500MHz Geode).

http://thumbnails9.imagebam.com/1005/46eec410049429.gif HDTune results for the 1.8" HD in my Asus. HDTach won't run on Vista. As you can see, the HD is noticeably slower than yours so you can imagine what Vista is like on there. The negative spikes may be due to multiple partitions on the drive. I'...

Hi, yes, our machines have the same chipset, GPU and a very similar CPU (don't believe 1.06 vs. 1.2GHz makes much of a difference). As for having the same problem, I think the HD just isn't up to Vista's requirements. I was aware of that when I bought the laptop but it's been more apparent than I'd ...

Hello, sorry that I can't help you with your decision, but I'm in the same boat more or less. I have an Asus U1F which is similar to your R500 hardware-wise (look at my sig) only has a smaller (11.1") screen and a slightly slower C2D. I love it but I also think the HD (which is a Toshiba MK1011GAH i...

Which connector did you use for the fan? Is it the right type of plug and are you sure the fan is working? In order to check the connector on the board itself, just connect the chipset fan to it, it should spin up. As for controlling the chipset fan's speed, there's only one way to do it without add...

yeah the board is rock solid - my only gripe is that it doesn't recognize my apple alu keyboard on bootup - which is a pain as I sometimes need to boot into windows (running linux 99% of the time), so whenever I want to boot into windows I'll have to hook up a spare usb keyboard so I can select som...

Hello, looks like a nice set-up apart from the case quirks. As for running fanless, you should be careful. I wrote about that in my thread about the D945GCLF's first impressions and set up. With no case and relatively low ambient temps (around 20*C I guess) the system heated up very quickly when the...

@salmonguy Vista will work on the board, the 64-bit version should work fine as well, just don't expect it to be very fast. Aero will run. Installing from an USB optical drive (that's what you plan to do, right?) is no problem either. When you ask for guides setting this up, what do you refer to exa...

Wow! :) That's more like it, i.e. more fitting for the Atom. The US15 chipset should draw significantly less power than the 945, bringing the power consumption to expected levels, plus it has a DVI output (thanks to a different graphics chipset I suppose), Gigabit Ethernet and more slots... Probably...

Sorry if this is old news, but there's a BIOS update for the board, version 0067 from June 20. The changelog doesn't look too interesting (no notes about boot device selection fixes) but I'll flash it anyway and report back. –Fixed a problem where EFI variable accesses did not work properly after ...

As far as I understand it, a controller that supports Port Multipliers will see every drive attached to it as a single one, i.e. there's no "internal array" or JBOD at all. You just need a controller that supports port multiplying. Quote from SATA-IO: "The port multiplier is transparent to the drive...

@Master One 1. As for the CPU being an Engineering Sample, Intel may just have changed the bit indicating this, so it is possible the chip is not an ES after all. The multiplier is locked at 12 anyway. 2. The Atom is based on a very different architecture compared to other Intel CPUs, and this expla...

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Do you have any power consumption results? I'm interested in those with the 60W Morex converter. Linux Mint is 32-bit, right? If so, you may run into problems with the LAN chip, especially if kernel = 2.6.24.