Angus Comber wrote:
But the systems are sold in this configuration. There is a fan option.
I chose the fanless option.
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I've used numerous of the VIA mini-itx boards. There are several that
are designed to be fanless. The Eden processors are low power, low
consumption and do not ship with a fan. You cannot order these boards
with a fan. The only mini-itx boards that VIA makes that have fans are
on the C3 processors. The ones with the C3 processors were not designed
to be run without fans (with the exception of the initial release of the
C3-800Mhz boards). You have no benefit from an M series board. The M
series boards have a built in MPEG decoder.
There are also several models available with two ethernet ports (someone
posted that question in one of the follow up notes). These are the PD
and CL models. I've setup several of these as firewalls and VPN
endpoints. Never had an issue with heat except the time when the boss
man installed an insulating cover to the one side of the rack without
leaving an air space.
In any case, if you are doing transcoding you will probably not be happy
with the performance of an Eden based system. Go for a C3 1Ghz board
and you'll be much happier with the results.
Is SUSE not the best distro to use for this sort of thing? Should it be
something to take up with VIA?
SUSE is a dog for this sort of thing. Way too many services started by
default. Run something less complicated such as Slackware or a version
of debian and you'll be much happier with the results.
Feel free to email my offlist to discuss. I've been very happy with the
VIA mini-itx based systems for most applications that I've tried. You
will find limitations with Asterisk, but for general functionality, you
should be able to find something that will work well.
Darrick
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Darrick Hartman
DJH Solutions, LLC
http://www.djhsolutions.com
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