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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:24:59PM +0100, Gordon Scott wrote:
> I need to set up another machine here to deal with mail and fileserving,
> so that I can rebuild my main machine which is now suffering serious
> entropy but I presently hardly dare touch.
>
> I'd been thinking of buying a small ITX system, preferable fan-free,
> for a reasonable minimal ecological footprint and minimal noise.
>
> But I have sitting here an old 166MHz Cyrix box and a 66MHz 486 box.
> Bying an ITX implies probably binning those. These would both need new
> disc drives. The Cyrix is an AT, IIRC the 486 is an ATX.
>
> Does anyone have any ojective information on the relative merits of a
> new 60W ITX over keeping the old slow machines?
Pretty much any EPIA-based machine will be far faster than either
of those two, and will draw considerably less power (and will have
power saving features in it, too, for those times when it doesn't need
the CPU speed).
> Does anyone know if these machines will now cope with the likely loads
> of modern mail filtering (the present machine is a 560MHz AMD and is
> sometimes brought to its knees, but then it _is_ also running X and
> usually has a least firefox open).
My parents have a "fanless"(*) 600MHz EPIA system. That runs
mailscanner, and handles several hundred mails a day, mostly spam,
without a problem that anyone's noticed.
Hugo.
(*) Fanless CPU; the case still needs a 60mm fan to cool it.
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