On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Philipp Christian Ammann wrote:
Hello,
William Harrington wrote:
> For processors there are a few ideas out there. There are LV Intel
> Pentium III's that have thermal designs from 10.63 to 12.1 W ranging
> from 800 to 1GB at a 133MHz FSB. Also you'd be stuck with finding
PC133
> SDRAM for any board that would deal with that. An ideal
motherboard that
> would be ideal with this cpu would have onboard video, and
networking,
> and not necessarily sound.
I'm currently using a [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the board seems to
die :(
> I don't know if you can find equivelant specs with any AMD
processors
> but you might.
NP, i prefer intel ;) (at least the coppermine and thus the pentium-
m :))
> With your drives, you might consider solid state drives rather than
> mechanical drives.
Solid state drives? I just heard some myths about IBM designing
this, but i never saw or read about one.
Quite a few places deal with solid state drives. They have been
around even in 1990 when the SPARCengine 1 was available. Now you
can get SSDs with fibre channel which is sweet. The problem is the
storage cost / MB and even GB compared to mechanical drives exceeds
in magnitudes... soooo hmmm... You could find ramdisks with battery
backup power! Anyways, you can probably find a decent low power
mechanical drive.
Fewer, if possible. (under 30W when idle)
Another problem is the dimension of the power supply. A 100W supply
at full load has less loss than a [EMAIL PROTECTED] But what about spikes?
I don't know (yet) exactly how this works, so could you give me
some explanation?
Hmm 30W when idle... well if you think your whole computer can run
idle with <= 250mA, go for it.
You can get to 18W idle with the screen going on an iBook G4 1066MHz!
or 12.1W with the screen off. I think it'd be hard to get a desktop
or something you are building to get that low. 30W is gonna be rough.
Even at idle. Although with mini-itx you can get idle between 15-30W!
If you're machine is gonna be a 24/7 machine, use a back up power
supply that will condition the primary line voltage.
Sincerely,
William
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