On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:07:20AM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Keith Lofstrom > # on Friday 11 September 2009 10:43: > > >I'm looking > >for decent speed ( > Atom, but by not much ), low electrical power, > > The dual-core atom 330 at 1.6GHz seems to do pretty well for tina so far > (openoffice, firefox, gimp.) The intel graphics performance is > dissappointing with dual-head though.
Intel graphics is an issue with the older X, and I am in the Atom++ league because backups really thrash the machine and the SATA interfaces. The motherboard will be going into a Antec Sonata Designer III case; I already have the RAM and the Mondo-big-and-slow cooling fan for the CPU. Side note - the noise of a fan goes up as the 3rd power of the airspeed. So a fan with twice the diameter moving the same air volume will be moving that air at 1/4 the speed, with (area / noise-per-area) = 4/64 times the noise. Or 12dB quieter. 80mm => 2x120mm is 13dB quieter. Big cases are good, shuttle cases are small and cute but noisy and failure prone. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
