27 May
2008
27 May
'08
1:27 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
My current thought is that I could pick up something
like an HP e-PC
and equip it with a CF hard drive. But a 1.7GHz CPU again seems like
overkill for a very limited application.
Does anyone have any other low-power ideas? Note that most of the
streams I listen to are RA, not MP3.
The "Eden" mini-ITX boards are going pretty cheap these days.
Low-power and low-BTU processors and very small form-factors. If you
have a pretty hefty 12V or 24V DC adapter, you can get a DC-ATX
converter for about $30.
I've got a little Eden C3 300MHz board that runs on 5VDC that
supposedly came out of a firewall router (No idea what brand, I pulled
it naked out of a barrel of greenboard.) It's smaller than a 5.25"
drive, uses a PC133 SODIMM, has onboard 100bT and video, and supports
standard IDE devices. I paid $5 for it.
Doc