marcus Wrote: > My plan (having given up on using my desktop (too noisy / power hungry) > and a cobalt raq 3 that I had lying around (too old/awkward) is to > build a mini-itx box as cheaply as possible. It will just run > slimserver and samba. Sure the difference between 256 Mb and 512 is > probably only 20 quid but if I don't need to spend the extra cash then > why do it?
There are som issues with the mini-itx route that you should be aware of: 1. Only one memory slot. Because of this, a 512MB is a better choice as it will probably be enough for the whole life of the box. 2. Mini-ITX motherboards are expensive. You could probably pick up a micro-ATX board and an AMD Sepmron for less (Socket 754). These boards have two memory sockes, so you can start with 256MB and add another stick if you need more. 3. Mini-ITX cases are expensive. 4. Mini-ITX cases are small. This is a plus if you only need one disk, a minus if you intend two disks or more (eg. for raid). 5. The fan on the Epia M-10000 is noisy (The board I have). I have put my M-10000 in an AOpen A340 case and replaced the noisy fan with a Zalman passive chipset cooler. I ended up using this as a party music source as there is only place for one or two disks. When I build slimserver boxes for my friends, I go for the following setup. MSI K8M800 motherboard, Sempron 2800+ CPU, one 512MB (DDR3200) memory stick, AOpen H450B case, one or two 250MB Samsung hard disks and a DVD-RW drive (for backup). This box is probably overkill, but it is reasonably inexpensive. The box have two purposes: slimserver and a general SAMBA server for the household. It runs linux of course. Just my 2 cents (or 50 øre here in Norway, we dont have smaller coins ;) -- tomsi42 SqueezeBox2, Rotel RC-1070/RB-1070, dynaBel Exact. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomsi42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2477 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18763 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
