On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM, paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > My I like your approach. > Now I have to go see what all of this might cost. > On vmware are you running esxi?? > Suspect the atoms are costly
No. It cheap. An Intel motherboard with an Atom CPU soldered down to it (Atom does not use a socket) costs $90 at Amazon.com Get the one that has real RS232 ports on it if you want to run NTP server. Also look for the dual core (not quad core) that has not fan on the CPU heat sink. These are the ones that use the leat power. Next you need RAM. Then some kind of storage. The best in terms of power is a USB flash drive. but a small notebook size drive uses very little power. gaet a very inexpensive older 80GB drive for $40 or so Then you need a chassis and power supply. If you shop around you can get in for under $200. I putin 4GB of RAM. But 2GB could work Figure thecost of power at $0.21 per KWH and the $200 atom will pay for itself in a year when compared to a larger desktop system. I used Linux because the system also runs an NTP server, NTP works poorly under Windows and I want to be able to host a web site with data I collect and a few other things that Linux does well. Plans are for the Atom box to control an Rb oscillator too. Even while running VMware (the free version) and two operating systems and NTP and aweb server the little 1.8GHz dual core Atom CPU is not close to over loaded > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Chris Albertson <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> I have an Intel Atom powered box that runs Linux. These Atom CPUs use >> so little power they don't put fans on the CPU heat sinks. I run >> VMware on Linux and then Windows XP inside the virtual PC. LH runs on >> Windows in the virtual machine. I have removed the monitor, keyboard >> and mouse. The entire setup uses about 5 or 6 watts of power >> >> If I want to see the LH display I can log into the linux system for >> any other computer and have the screen exported. >> >> Chris Albertson >> Redondo Beach, California >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ 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.
