OCUK VALUE ATOM DDR2 BAREBONES

Bradmax57 · 26 Jan 2011 at 15:45

[RB];18319609 said:
I never seen such a device although that would be quite helpful

The only option I can think of would be a USB gigabit adapter and PCI SATA card.

I can't comment on Gigabit usb but from what I remember of using 10/100 usb adapters they aren't great.

Ive actually found one by a quick google, had a gigabit lan and 3 sata ports albeit only one internal unfortunately its been discontinued, maybe the bay of e will have something

[RB] · 26 Jan 2011 at 15:53

Bradmax57 said:
Ive actually found one by a quick google, had a gigabit lan and 3 sata ports albeit only one internal unfortunately its been discontinued, maybe the bay of e will have something

Just found it aswell

As you say - all seem to be out of stock / discontinued.

/EDIT

The only other thing cropping up is a Lindy 5 port SATA Multiplier but for the cost of this you may as well just buy a better board to start with.

wonko · 26 Jan 2011 at 15:55

I would be cautious of usb network adapters for driver support and whether they would improve in speed over the on-board fast ethernet.

You can get dual PCI riser/extensions that might help.

DennisMenace · 26 Jan 2011 at 17:25

Not only would this make a great super-budget PC (<£100 w/o monitor), but at that price it has to be a more versatile alternative to a NAS enclosure.

Most expensive part would be the OS, unless you could find a free* copy somewhere...

(* Linux of course)

pingu666 · 28 Jan 2011 at 03:04

old copy of xp would do ok aswell

im tempted, but i have no real use for another pc xD

Scon · 29 Jan 2011 at 12:22

Is this a limited time offer?

sjcf1 · 29 Jan 2011 at 12:27

Is the CPU dual or single core?

NathWraith · 29 Jan 2011 at 13:02

burrell said:
Is this a limited time offer?

Nope, this is the price

sjcf1 said:
Is the CPU dual or single core?

Hyperthreading single core. So effectively a dual core.

littlepuppy · 29 Jan 2011 at 16:16

Nath, any chance of something similar to this being done but with one of the D series atoms, I would love something like this for a linux server build but as it stands I think its just a bit toooo lightweight..

Scon · 29 Jan 2011 at 16:18

I just bought one!

This does run with PC2-5300 DDR2 RAM right?

macfanuk · 30 Jan 2011 at 01:22

Would this be sufficient as a small FTP server (to take backups of my web server) or would I be better off going for something like this with a cheap AMD chip? Also will it run with PC2-5300/6400 ram but downgrade it?

Paper Lawyer · 30 Jan 2011 at 10:32

I'm going to buy one this morning for NAS duties.

Answering the question above, the user manual for the motherboard linked on page 1 refers to the motherboard accepting 800mhz memory

Blackbadger · 30 Jan 2011 at 17:49

What is the power consumption of these ?

I have been looking at various atom systems, some consume 40-50w others 10w.
It appears to be all down to the chipset used for the same spec.

Scon · 30 Jan 2011 at 17:52

Blackbadger said:
What is the power consumption of these ?

I have been looking at various atom systems, some consume 40-50w others 10w.
It appears to be all down to the chipset used for the same spec.

Well it has a 180w psu, so say that is at %60 load, and say it's %70 efficient, works out to be just under 100w.

That's a rough maybe just about possibly guestimation though.

Blackbadger · 30 Jan 2011 at 18:04

Hmm... if anyone gets one, and can test, that would be appreciated.

macfanuk · 2 Feb 2011 at 22:20

Any opinions on whether this would be good enough for a FTP server to backup a web server?

Scon · 3 Feb 2011 at 06:01

Mine arrived yesterday, whacked 2GB ram and win7 ultimate on it, it runs well. Nothing fandy but it works as i had intented.

The Halk · 3 Feb 2011 at 10:45

OcUK if you want a suggestion, try and find a case that takes LOTS of hard drives for this, and use a board that has a PCIe slot on it (for RAID cards).

That way people can use this as a server.