George Ou's technology blog: Making tech easy http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/BlogId/1/Default.aspx en-US george_ou@lanarchitect.net Admin@formortals.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:20 GMT Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:20 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R20RLQMpTj4&hl=en" width="425" height="344" scale="ShowAll" loop="loop" menu="menu" wmode="Window" quality="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p> <p><font size="2">The Intel Atom on 945 chipset motherboards have arrived (thanks to my friend Max for the tip) and they're quite affordable! <strong><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342">$77 with shipping in stock here</a>. </strong>This should make an awesome embedded device or home server since the power consumption is so incredibly low.</font></p> <p><font size="2">This is a 4W TDP 45nm CPU that averages under a watt idle. The only thing that disappoints me is the big honking heat sink and fan on the GPU/chipset while the CPU takes a tiny bit of space with a tiny heat sink and no fan. The chipset uses an older manufacturing process which is why it's so relatively big compared to the tiny 45nm CPU.  However, I'm pretty sure that you could remove that fan from the heat sink for the GPU/chipset especially if you don't plan on using the GPU with 3D gaming.</font></p> http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/62/Default.aspx george_ou@lanarchitect.net http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/62/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.formortals.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=62 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:44:00 GMT 0 http://www.formortals.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=62