Re: Anyone tried an Atom 330 with Dragonfly
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:18:11 +0100 Jan Lentfer jan.lent...@web.de wrote: Steve O'Hara-Smith schrieb: Hi, One of my workstations died and I'm looking to replace it, since the computing needs are not great I thought it might be nice to use something low powered and the dual core Atom 330 looks like a good option. I'm a little torn between two Asrock boards the A330GC with an Intel chipset and the rather newer A330ION with it's faster memory and all out more of everything and apparently lower power consumption than the lesser Intel chipset. Question is has anyone run DFLY on either of these (or anything with the same chipsets) or am would I be breaking new ground One of my Dev boxes is a Atom 330, Foxconn mainboard with intel chipset. No problem running DF. Thanks guys. In the end I went for the A330GC over the newer D510 or the ION on the grounds that the Intel chipset is fully supported by Xorg unlike the ION (when the nouveau driver is abit more mature I suspect the ION will be a very nice choice in the meantime there would be a lot of silicon doing nothing and not even Xvideo support). Also the A330GC has dual channel memory support which is perhaps faster than the single channel on the D510 board. I'm happy to report that everything on the board works perfectly. Currently I have hyperthreading enabled so it shows up as having four CPUs. It's a *lot* faster than the XP1700 it replaces :) -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org/
Anyone tried an Atom 330 with Dragonfly
Hi, One of my workstations died and I'm looking to replace it, since the computing needs are not great I thought it might be nice to use something low powered and the dual core Atom 330 looks like a good option. I'm a little torn between two Asrock boards the A330GC with an Intel chipset and the rather newer A330ION with it's faster memory and all out more of everything and apparently lower power consumption than the lesser Intel chipset. Question is has anyone run DFLY on either of these (or anything with the same chipsets) or am would I be breaking new ground ? -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org/
Re: Anyone tried an Atom 330 with Dragonfly
Hi, On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:24:12PM +, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: One of my workstations died and I'm looking to replace it, since the computing needs are not great I thought it might be nice to use something low powered and the dual core Atom 330 looks like a good option. I'm a little torn between two Asrock boards the A330GC with an Intel chipset and the rather newer A330ION with it's faster memory and all out more of everything and apparently lower power consumption than the lesser Intel chipset. There's a brand new generation of Atom CPUs out there since this month : http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3692 If you can afford to wait a little while, I would recommend to go with an Atom D510 (330 equivalent: two cores, 2 threads per core). I'm thinking myself of getting this board soon: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H The two gigabit ethernet and 6 sata ports are particularly nice for a small file server. -- Francois Tigeot
Re: Anyone tried an Atom 330 with Dragonfly
Steve O'Hara-Smith schrieb: Hi, One of my workstations died and I'm looking to replace it, since the computing needs are not great I thought it might be nice to use something low powered and the dual core Atom 330 looks like a good option. I'm a little torn between two Asrock boards the A330GC with an Intel chipset and the rather newer A330ION with it's faster memory and all out more of everything and apparently lower power consumption than the lesser Intel chipset. Question is has anyone run DFLY on either of these (or anything with the same chipsets) or am would I be breaking new ground One of my Dev boxes is a Atom 330, Foxconn mainboard with intel chipset. No problem running DF. Jan
