On Monday 29 December 2008 06:53:30 Bob McGwier wrote: > I am running GnuRadio, SDRMAX, and PowerSDR on my new Intel ATOM 330 > MiniITX motherboard. I had to put a firewire card in the single PCI slot. > The integrated intel graphics are nice and spiffy (glxgears is at 800 fps > if you turn off the desktop enhancements, no wiggly windows please). > > > > At 96000 PowerSDR is running under 15% CPU. The ATOM burns EIGHT watts and > has dual hyperthread cores (shows up as four processors in task manager).
Unfortunately the 945 chipset eats ~20W - god knows why Intel lumbered the Atom with it :( Toms Hardware (and others) did a test of the Atom vs an underclocked Athlon and the later won most of the tests http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997-1.html I think the Atom combo is cheaper and smaller though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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