I've switched almost exclusively to building and using ITX systems at home. They are small, use little power, and still have enough kick to run any of the games I still play. I've got quad AMD and quad intel boxes and these things are tiny but can do some hardcore processing. I've been stripping commercials from a bunch of TV recordings using a comskip script and can strip and re-encode an hour mpg into high quality xvid in just a few minutes.
The atom platform is solid. My PIAF (PBX-in-a-Flash) VOIP system is based on a single core atom CPU and can handle multiple IAX & SIP calls concurently without a hiccup. I've also run this off a Pentium-M ITX system and those do well even though they are old school. lopaka ________________________________ From: CW <tmse...@rlrnews.com> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 8:15:01 PM Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q You know, I spent today after we got done with solving the AD doing their new Point of sales.. little units that handle their software (it's Jonas if anyone is familiar: http://www.jonasclub.com/ ) Anyway, outside of the fact their touch screens are old school (COM port driven) and Chit printer technology still is crap, we spent the day converting boxes and putting in new POS systems that run off Mini-ITX Intel Atom 330 MB. I'm not saying I'd use it for my desktop, but the Atom 330/board combo is decently faster, a better choice then most microatx/cheap celeron combos, and I have nothing bad to say about it. You can find those boards for like $80 945G+Atom330 onboard. One of the best bangs/buck out there, period. I'm going to use another one, slap a USB Mediareader in it, boot to USB for a ClarkConnect Firewall. We get so focused on the high end, but I can't think of anything at all bad to say about this board. Nothing, absolutely nothing. -----Original message----- From: Stan Zaske swza...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:59:33 -0800 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Unusual Active Directory Q > Dude it is still an overclocking list! I do it every day and will never > stop trying to get the best bang for my buck. Buy, use for awhile then > sell on Ebay and get something newer and better. Next year is looking > real good for AMD. InHell, who dat? >
