[Eug-lug] Intel Atom

[Darrough, James]

Thanks for your responses folks. I am not trying to build a super
computer hah hah. Just for home entertainment, etc. The price seems
pretty good, and ddr2 memory is not all that expensive either. 

Thanks, Jim Darrough

-----Original Message-----
From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On
Behalf Of Mr O
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:03 PM
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Intel Atom

Don't expect worlds of performance. It's probably not a whole lot faster
than a decent P3. The goal for Atom is power savings. Intel will very
soon have two mini-ITX boards on the open market though you'd be
spending three times as much to get setup with one. Boards should be
under $150, CPU from under $100 and up to whatever you want to spend.
That would be a far more powerful tiny system. The Atom boards are
readily available under $100 though. 


--- On Tue, 7/15/08, Darrough, James <james.darrough at oregonstate.edu>
wrote:

> From: Darrough, James <james.darrough at oregonstate.edu>
> Subject: [Eug-lug] Intel Atom
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug at euglug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 4:53 PM
> Just wondered if anyone has tried one of the new Atom
> motherboard/CPU
> combinations. Looks very interesting. I am thinking about
> replacing the
> motherboard in an old HP Cube with one of these babies and
> thought I
> would ask.
> 
> Regards to all, Jim
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