Low powered computing on the cheap

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

hows this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130166

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103197

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371005

choice gleamed from this

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-Atom-Efficient,1981-13.html

 

[Katanai]

How about this?

http://www.dell.com/content/product...o-hybrid?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~tab=designtab

It's fairly new so I don't know the exact specs but seeing how small it is I doubt that it draws much power. If you can stomach the styling it could be a good secondary PC.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

whats the price on that?

 

[Katanai]

I dunno exactly but from reading a bit more about it I think it's waay too much. Did you ever considered a Via Nano? Via has some awesome mini boards out there which don't consume that much power and are much better than the Atom platform. Don't be fooled by the fact that the Nano consumes more power than the Atom. The north bridge on the Atom platform probably consumes more than both put together...

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

the via itx boards cost like 200+ dollars .. that could sort out a sempron 780g and a hard drive with change .. are they a significant difference to previous options?

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

read this

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997.html

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

no one interested in low powered computing?

 

[Fitseries3]

i like that intel p45 board.. but i guess thats not low power.

 

[peach1971]

read this

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997.html

My Athlon X2 4850e system sucks 97W idle (IGP switched off in BIOS) http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=937696&postcount=2
That means my HD3850 needs more power in idle than the whole rest of the system. Gotcha!
I guess I need to undervolt my video card for 2D mode...

First of all I will take out the HD3850 for new power measurements.
If there only was an option for switching off the video card from PEG slot and power connection!

 

[xfire]

You should try going the AMD way, the IGP's are good and require lesser power.
Also use of Linux reduces the system resource hogging and Cool and Quite works very well with Linux.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

hmmm .. now a dual core atom now makes everything more interesting ...

 

[peach1971]

AMD Bulldozer > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(processor)

Bulldozer is the codename AMD has given to one of the next-generation CPU cores after the K10 microarchitecture for the company's M-SPACE design methodology, with the core specifically aimed at 10 watt to 100 watt TDP computing products. Bulldozer is a completely new design developed from the ground up. AMD claims dramatic performance-per-watt improvements in HPC applications with Bulldozer cores. [1] Products implementing the Bulldozer core are planned for release in 2010. [2]

The Bulldozer core, under the M-SPACE design method, can also to be paired with at least one full DirectX compatible GPU core (though AMD did not specify the compatible GPUs, it was presumed to be based on Radeon GPUs), to become part of the Falcon family, a product under the codename "Fusion" label. A new architecture, codenamed Sandtiger, with 8 to 16 Bulldozer cores was also in the works, optimized for servers and HPC applications. The Bulldozer cores will also implement a new iteration of Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) with 170 new instructions, named SSE5.

AMD Bobcat, 1.0 GHz, 8W TPD

COMING NOVEMER 2008:
AMD "Ultra-Value Client" series
AMD Athlon 2650e (Lima 65nm), 1.6 GHz, 15W TPD
AMD Athlon X2 3250e (Brisbane 65nm), 1.5 GHz, 22W TPD

Sources:
http://www.computerbase.de/news/har...08/september/amd_15-_22-watt-athlon_november/
http://www.computerbase.de/news/hardware/prozessoren/amd/2008/juli/amds_atom-konkurrent_bobcat/
(language >german)


Comment:
Coming to such low TPDs like the Atom´s (2.5W, right?) moves the focus more and more on other components sucking energy (chipset etc.), doesn´t it?


BTW: Dear motherboard and video card manufacturers:
Would you please give us all an option to fully disable video cards when we just want to click through the web only using our IGPs??

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

any more additions?

 

[Boyfriend]

OK!
Can I use D945GCLF for internet browsing (along with AV+Firewall like KIS 2009)+DVD watching (DVD-9 probably in high quality with PowerDVD 9)+music listening and other day-to-day tasks. Can it deal with all of the above mentioned (especially AV and DVD) well without any problem or slow down. I am mostly concerned about DVD quality on Atom