Well... bleeding edge as in relatively new maybe... I purchased my Sempron 3100+ with an Nforce3-based motherboard for $79.99 US plus shipping (about $10 US). So they're relatively inexpensive. This Sempron can dynamically adjust it's clock speed between 1Ghz and 1.8Ghz as well... so they have some power management features.
On the extreme low end, I reccomend you look into a Netgear WGT634U wireless router. They can be had for about $35 US on ebay or from JustDeals.com and run Linux. They have a few more features than the equivalent Linksys models, and the Debian installer has recently been ported to them, so it's pretty easy to get a full-featured linux on to. They consume 1 - 4W while running, and have 5 10/100 ethernet ports, a USB2 port, 2 serial ports (one needs headers soldered on - the other's ready to go), a 200Mhz MIPS32-like CPU, 32Mb ram, and 8Mb flash. They're nice machines. I own 5. --tim On 4/14/06, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 08:56:06PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote: > > I believe every Opteron / Athlon 64 / Sempron 64 has an IOAPIC correct? > > > > --tim > > > This is a Pentium 2. > OK, I think I see where you're going. Bleeding-edge stuff has some > different kind of interrupt system that breaks the ISA 16-IRQ limit? I > fired up the Athlon and took a look at its /proc/interrupts. Ah, so. I'd > never have thought of looking there. > So, this is a big problem for keeping old warhorses in service for > network infrastructure, but it wouldn't apply to newly designed > purpose-built hardware. > The Opterons and Athlons and such would be too power-hungry for > device servers and firewalls and the like, but presumably there are other > choices that wouldn't be I/O-starved and still take it easy on the power > bill. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
