I just wanted to thank everyone for the recommendations for fanless motherboards. I will have a great new year investigating these.
Here's the summary: http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm This looks fab (and Geoff recomends it). I'm undecided between this one and the ALIX. http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm This looks great and appears to be readily available to consumers (in the UK for example: http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=180 ). http://www.compulab.co.il/iglx/html/iglx-sb-datasheet.htm Due to shipping from Israel, this is a bit pricey. See also http://www.fit-pc.com/ , which is Compulab selling the http://www.compulab.co.il/iglx/html/iglx-enc-datasheet.htm to consumers. VIA MS10000E It was the VIAs that got me onto the fanless bandwagon in the first place. But I have now had a string of bad experiences (the DMA issue with the 5000, poor video and audio on a M9000, but I do have one M10000 with a fan, that appears to be alright). If I read the news correctly, VIA are getting out of the board market and are concentrating on the chipsets instead. I also stumbled into the world of the PC/104 form factor (e.g., http://www.wordsworth.co.uk/ ), which looks very intriguing. But the options are endless, and that makes deciding a bit hard. Robby -- email r.raschke instead of rrplan9
