Thomas Kaiser wrote: >Hello All > >I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. > > Aren't we all :)
>What you guys are using? I checked the WIKI page with the latency >information. For me it looks quite outdated. > > It's got information on machines that people have used. Unfortunately, we don't have a staff or budget for getting new motherboards and testing them. >I am looking for something reliable and with no moving parts (Fan, HD). >Are the new Intel Atoms a good choice? > > I don't know of anyone who has tried an Atom-based system - you'd be the first. >Can anybody on this list give me some advice? > > Yep. There is one motherboard that seems to work quite well, the Goal3+ from ECS. I bought mine from NewEgg: <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135227>. That one isn't in the wiki, I'll add it if Skunkworks doesn't beat me to it :) One thing to note about that board, the onboard video has terrible visual artifacting at higher resolutions. If you run at 1280x1024 or lower, they're not too annoying. You can add a video card to eliminate that problem. There's a motherboard someone else tried (eric_u on IRC), but I don't recall which one it was. I have also had good luck with an Acrosser embedded system, the AR-ES1802, but that's quite expensive compared to consumer fare - close to $1000 for a reasonable configuration (and not fanless). I don't recommend this system though - the chipset is terribly slow for PCI access, and the good results were only possible after disabling almost all services (sound, X, misc daemons), and changing filesystems. This was for a HAL-only application, so I was able to get away without video - not so great for EMC2. - Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
