1 Nov
2005
1 Nov
'05
12:43 p.m.
At 8:56 AM -0800 11/1/05, Chuck Guzis wrote:
ITX by VIA is GOOD. Get everything to start off on one board except
memory, drive(s), case and power supply.
Remember, ITX mounting points and ATX power supply plug are same for
microATX, ATX cases so use one locally and put ITX in it.
Alteratively, any PIII socket 370 running 133 bus have some spunk.
PIII 533/133 cpu is 14W. Cooler than a Pentium 233mmx that rated at
17W.
There is a link that details many CPUs for power consumpation
ratings, warning: it is a looong web, all text, no graphics, give it
a minute to load.
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm
Cheers, Wizard
I'm wondering if something a little less
power-hungry might be preferable,
however. Are there any low-power alternatives for the job that anyone can
recommend?
A VIA Mini-ITX system is the best choice, they might not have a lot
of CPU power, but it's hard to beat them on power consumption. A
good second choice would probably be a Pentium M based system
(they're starting to become available in something other than
laptops).
At 12:45 PM -0500 11/1/05, Paul Koning wrote:
How about an old laptop? UPS built-in... :-)
I'd be concerned with reliability. This is something that has to run 24x7.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Would an offering from one of the various UNIX
vendors be a
possibility? Sun / SGI / HP or something? I'm thinking that getting
away from any kind of Intel CPU would be a good place to start, plus
of course you don't need any kind of framebuffer then either (unlike
a PC) and can just use a serial console on the (very rare)
occassions when you'd need to be physically at the machine.
Do any of them offer anything that is low power? As for not needing
any kind of framebuffer, under OpenBSD I don't really need it with
the HP Pentium III system I'm using. Though it was a bit worrisome
the other night when there was nothing on the console and it took
forever to come up (it was fsck'ing the disk as the power had gone
out).
Noise is the real reason I'm using the Pentium III, it's a *LOT*
quieter than the SparcServer 5/110 that I was using. The Sparc was
louder than the two 3-drive JBOD boxes running 10k RPM SCSI drives
sitting above it (they're hooked to an OpenVMS server).
Zane