2012/1/2 gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>: > > I've found a barebones box with a D525 board in it, for $120, claims to > have the lpt on the back panel already. Needs a couple sticks of ddr2, a > smallish sata drive and a dvd reader. > > <http://www.outletpc.com/rj3658.html> > > $120 kit > $ 29 ram > $ 80 500G sata3 drive > $ 40 laptop style dvd drive, don't see how desktop would fit > $ 24 keyboard/mouse with usb rf dongle > _____ > $293 + whatever > > Looks like it would be a ready to install 10.04 on. > > What do the folks here think of this kit? >
It is great, but why do You want that dvd?!? I would recommend purchasing 4GB usb stick for half of the dvd price and keep live-CD install on it. D525 perfectly boots from USB stick and that way You do not have to waste a dvd disk, when new live-CD is created, but simply re-create the usb install. D525 is good for EMC, yesterday I counted that I have used D525 in 4 EMC machines. Latency is good. I must admit that all 4 machines use hardware step generation and thus are not "familiar" with base-thread, only servo-thread. But one of the machines - the welding robot - is happily running the servo thread at 1,5 kHz update rate with 6 joints and non-trivial kinematics, so there is some load for calculations. I just would like to warn You about using D525 and LPT-based I/O card that requires EPP mode - Intel has screwed it up, I had a very bad experience with 3 D525 boards, other users can report success, so be careful. Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
