Old doesn't necessarily mean it sips power. Power consumption is based
on "buckets of charge" shuffled through the chips. Older processes have
more capacitance, hence bigger buckets for the same amount of work.
Further, notebooks have all the power saving features that are causing
(potentially) problems in the first place.
On 4/5/2012 1:03 PM, shali...@gmail.com wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] NTP jitter with Linux
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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).
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"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."
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