You can still buy 10 packs! :-) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121671&Tpk=D525MW -Tom
On Jan 23, 2013, at 8:19 PM, N. Christopher Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Good luck.... I just checked a couple of days ago an found they were sold > out. > > N. Christopher Perry > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:12, Bruce Layne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been getting old Craig's List PCs that I was fairly sure would work >> well with LinuxCNC for $75, and testing the latency with a Live CD >> before buying them. For the current project I wanted a little more >> integration. It's a CNC router that I expect to work in an environment >> with a lot of wood dust, so I decided to put a small motherboard into >> the sealed electrical enclosure to keep it from choking to death on fine >> sawdust. I got a D525MW Intel motherboard from NewEgg.com. I loved >> it! Very easy setup, with only a few little BIOS tweaks to optimize it >> for CNC appliance use. With a power supply, RAM and a 64 GB solid state >> SATA drive, it was almost $200, but it's a much nicer integrated >> solution than basing a LinuxCNC machine on an old shabby looking used PC. >> >> I particularly liked that the low power Atom processor on the D525MW was >> so efficient that it didn't need a lot of cooling, and Intel cleverly >> designed it with a large vertical heat sink that uses only a little bit >> of ambient airflow. No processor fan is needed. That low power >> approach was perfect for LinuxCNC use, but most of the market seems to >> be headed in the other direction. Here's a comment from the article, >> under a picture of one of seven soon-to-be-discontinued Intel motherboards. >> >> "The DP55KG Kingberg for the short-lived LGA1156 CPUs featured a skull >> made up of LEDs that would glow under load." >> >> Not that I don't like glowing skulls as much as the next guy, but that's >> not a feature that I particularly care about in a LinuxCNC application. >> >> I liked the D525MW motherboard so much that I'm tempted to buy five of >> them from NewEgg.com for future projects. >> >> >> >> On 01/23/2013 09:35 AM, Matt Shaver wrote: >>> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_quit_making_motherboards2013 >>> >>> I hope that other manufacturers MiniITX boards prove as good performing >>> on latency-test as the ones from Intel. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Matt >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, >>> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current >>> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft >>> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, >> MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current >> with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft >> MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
