On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 17:04, Eric House <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm shopping for my first new desktop in five years and hoping to have > it for as long. My desk area is tiny (converted closet) so I'm > looking at smaller and quieter systems. (But still mainstream: I've > been a bit disappointed with the stability of VIA-based systems so > want to stick with Intel or perhaps AMD.)
interesting. what problems have you had with VIA systems? i've been running a one ghz mini-itx mobo with a 1.2ghz via chip fanless for a couple of years now and it's been rock solid (except the wifi card i'm using in it occasionally gets in a fight with ndiswrapper that requires a reboot to fix, sadly). i used it as my desktop for about a year before i decided i really needed more than that motherboard's max 1G of ram to do some things i wanted so i got a new machine as a desktop and left that as the server. it runs beautifully and silently...girlfriend has no objections to it running all night (once i desoldered the activity light on the NIC). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
