Thank you for the advice I recently purchased 3 shuttle boxes from Jamies computers ( Where I work) they are all in various states I have tried my best to get them to work, One is a socket 478 from what I can establish I think the motherboard has gone when the machine is powered on I am getting no graphical output, I have changed the ram, changed the processor, changed the graphics card twice, reset the cmos
The machine in question is complete, case but I'm guessing the board is dead which is a snag ive taken out a akasa molex half height PCI card and the Processor heatpipes as spares, and for now i'm keeping the machine as a spare incase I come along a replacement board.
The second one is another shuttle but it's missing a supply which is a different standard to the one I have so can't really do much at the moment.
Lastly the machine I have is a Socket 462 type Shuttle machine the case side panels are missing, I have fitted a smaller power supply then the machine originally takes and currently the supply is being held in place by cable ties, the machine it's self is in good working order but has no sidepanels.
I might relook at what I have strip out the good working components and sell my spares if anyone would be interested?
I shall have a look at
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=1054 and see what is out there.
Has anyone tested the latest version of Ubuntu with a Mini-ITX setup? as at the moment it'll be a toss up between Ubuntu and Debian as I will need to carry out some of the work using webmin.
Thanks
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:07:17 +0000
> From: stephen@???
> To: hampshire@???
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mini-ITX
>
> > Has anyone got any Mini-ITX machines if so please list your specs included
> > case and what the performance is like.
> >
>
> I currently run one mini-itx machine, used to run 2 but one died :(
>
> Machines:
>
> 1) EPIA 8000, 800mhz board with a small quiet fan. Very low power but used
> to work reasonably well as a simple file server and mp3 player, although
> response time was pretty rubbish for apache which I used to run my mp3
> player.
>
> It sat in one of these cases underneath my mini stereo and just had the
> aux input straight into the stereo system to play music:
>
> http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10543
>
> Only my case only had one 5.25" drive bay.
>
> Very very low power, and this was at uni the fan noise was quiet enough to
> sleep with the machine on in my room.
>
> 2) EPIA SP13000, 1.2gz via mini-itx board, which runs my media centre. But
> to be honest it is very slow. Responsiveness sucks, but is is very low
> power which is good for a machine that is left running 24x7.
>
> In my experience, certainly in the past, Linux support for these via
> systems has been very so-so. A lot of stuff only just hangs together and
> to be honest even on my newer SP13000 board, running Fedora 7 (not
> upgraded for a while, no point if it works!) a lot of things were a pain
> to get working.
>
> However the output on the board are great, S-Video runs nicely to be old
> TV for display, colour isn't too bad, and accelerated MPEG2 playback means
> that even though it is low power it works great for media. But is a
> complete no-go for hi-def.
>
> It also has s/pdif output on the back, which is good for media.
>
> It also has a great case for use under a TV:
>
> http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=3#media
>
>
> My new file/web server:
>
> When system 1 died (PSU went, possibly taking other parts with it, decided
> it was easier to start again then buy new bits one at a time until I
> figured out what was really dead) I replaced it with a brand new system
> simply running in a normal small tower case, cheap AMD motherboard and
> cheap duron processor. Whole new setup including case cost me something
> like £80.
>
> This system is massively quicker than my old via system, responsiveness of
> apache and the file server is obviously better. It does produce more noise
> but I've just stuck it in the corner of the study so it isn't too bad.
>
> Personally I wouldn't recommend either of my systems to run a webserver
> that people were going to look at ;)
>
> Future replacement media centre:
>
> What I am seriously looking at though, is the new intel boards that you
> mentioned, specifically one of the Atom 330 boards.
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF2/D945GCLF2-overview.htm
>
> These appear to be well supported in Linux (being intel kit), low (ish)
> power, but still seriously quick compared with the old via gear. The
> downside would appear to be that the fan on board is quite noisy (but
> easily replaced with a quieter one ) and apparently capable of hi-def
> video playback with latest ffmpeg etc.
>
> I specifically want the 330 due to s-video output, and gigabit lan (hi-def
> media over the network!)
>
> The big downside is the power draw is quite large compared with some of
> the very small via systems, however suspend to ram seems to be much better
> supported (I've never got it working on either of my via systems), so I
> hope to save power by being able to power down and wake up for recordings
> etc.
>
> It seems that the atom boards draw about 41w idle and 45w running flat
> out, this is due to the old GMA950 graphics on board which isn't very
> efficient, the atom CPU itself is great. Compare this with the SP1300
> which appears to get about 15w idle and 35w flat out.
>
> Of course the thing is that the intel system is much more powerful but if
> power consumption is a big thing for you then via might be a better route
> and take the performance hit.
>
> Hmm, that got a bit rambling.. if you want me to clarify please let me
> know. Pretty much it's all just normal PC stuff, only with a smaller
> motherboard.
>
>
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