An older laptop (Pentium M for instance) can be had for $80 or so any day of the week, won't take much space, is completely standalone (built-in keyboard and display, built-in battery backup) and sips power when idle, which it will be most of the time.
The only issue is that you might be tempted to run more things on it and affect NTP performance. But if you load it with BSD and use it just for that, it will be a dandy solution. Didier KO4BB Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things... -----Original Message----- From: gary <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:09:14 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<[email protected]> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NTP jitter with Linux > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131663 Yep. This is what I run 24 and 7 for a number of monitoring tasks. It has an Intel SSD. Mobo was $140 at Fry's. SSD was a Fry's special too. It has a Nvidia ion2 (it does home theater PC streaming at times.] USB 3. Gigabit ethernet. Ignore the comment about it not playing 720P. It does 1080 no problem IF you are using hardware acceleration. The D525 was the first 64 bit atom. It can use a full 4G of RAM. There may be better Atoms out there now since I've built this. This particular mobo is very picky on RAM. It is best to read the feedback on Newegg, which was of more use than the Asus webpage. [I see someone claims 8Gbytes..eh, I think the chipset limit is 4.] Using SODIMMs is a drawback (more expensive than standard RAM). ----------- "I did the same thing. They work well and even if you have a "free" quad core PC in a closet some place it is cost effective to toss the thing in the trash and by a new computer with an Atom CPU." _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
