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
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