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Yes, the Eeebox reviews show a lower consumption than the Atom mobos which is strange.... even when both using DC-DC power sources.... Its suggested this may be cos Asus are using 945GSE rather than 945GC chipset..... and Ebox/Eeebox has 802.11n mini-PCIexpress card and Gigabit network so I'll also be waiting....

Pity 2.5" HDDs are so expensive.. 400gb costs £87 and 500gb costs £138.. lot more than 3.5" HDDs!!!
 
i have a few 2.5" drives so i dont need to worry about getting another one, i think ill be using a 60gb for the main HDD and boot up my storage machine (5tb) to copy accross the files then shut it down
 
entireweb said:
False

The TDP of the single core atom and 945 chipset is 12W. Now your not telling me that the C7 Via is 2W!!!
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Actually there are two chipsets being offered with the Atom, the i945GC that consumes 22 W (4 W for the CPU) and the Atom N270s ship with a i945GSE that burns 5.5 W (2.4 W for the CPU).
 
Biffa said:
Actually there are two chipsets being offered with the Atom, the i945GC that consumes 22 W (4 W for the CPU) and the Atom N270s ship with a i945GSE that burns 5.5 W (2.4 W for the CPU).
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As suggested here in post #41 :D

Thanks for confirming... this explains why the Ebox is using less power than the systems people build themselves with D945GCLF Little Falls mobos!
 
Biffa said:
Actually there are two chipsets being offered with the Atom, the i945GC that consumes 22 W (4 W for the CPU) and the Atom N270s ship with a i945GSE that burns 5.5 W (2.4 W for the CPU).
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Will the i945GSe be available for the end consumer? i have a Jetway J7F4 1.2GHz which claims 6w but its a big buggy.

Also i will only switch if i can get more than 2 sata connections. Does anyone know if the new atom boards will? the two i have saw are both 2 x Sata
 
If U want more than 2 SATA try the Jetway JNC62K Geforce 8200 board and with an AM2+ AMD CPU... not lowest power usage but plenty of SATA
 
am also looking for a smaller pc for use as download box, had a look at a few Nas the icybox and the synology but then decided a small pc was the way to go was thinking about getting one of the new shuttle K45 and a dual core celeron but after reading this post will have a look at mini itx :)
 
Not sure for download boxes, all the itx stuff I get/build is for firewalls/routers and either use laptop hard drives of solid state memory. Mind you they all have external USB ports so I guess adding extra HDD space is just a plug-in away.
 
Biffa said:
Not sure for download boxes, all the itx stuff I get/build is for firewalls/routers and either use laptop hard drives of solid state memory. Mind you they all have external USB ports so I guess adding extra HDD space is just a plug-in away.
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HDD space isn't an issue for me, power is one, i need it to be on 24/7 and a full pc which uses say 300-400 w is too expensive and a lot of that is wasted (gfx card, cpu ect) when it doesn't need a high spec.

the main reason i need it on 24/7 is remote access and at the moment there is no easy/cheap method to turn a machine on remotly, when i run out of space i will wake-on-lan the other machine copy the data accross and shut it down
 
I just bought a power meter to test out my 24/7 box. It claims to be 35w idle with 1 x 2.5" and 2 x 3.5" disks. this is based on a Jetway JF4 board. Im happy with that until i can work out how to do some better power management in debian.

Without the hard drives the board is <20W
 
lopkinfop said:
HDD space isn't an issue for me, power is one, i need it to be on 24/7 and a full pc which uses say 300-400 w is too expensive and a lot of that is wasted (gfx card, cpu ect) when it doesn't need a high spec.

the main reason i need it on 24/7 is remote access and at the moment there is no easy/cheap method to turn a machine on remotly, when i run out of space i will wake-on-lan the other machine copy the data accross and shut it down
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I believe U can do all that with a NAS. U can WOL other machines, you can telnet in or SSH, and can do web serving and downloading all for 13-14W ;)
 
Buffalo Linkstation or in fact any OPEN source NAS with a half decent CPU (not a 10/100 one as generally they have crappy CPUs and avoid the Thecus N299. Note THECUS ones there are not many modules for generally.
 
dmce said:
Will the i945GSe be available for the end consumer? i have a Jetway J7F4 1.2GHz which claims 6w but its a big buggy.

Also i will only switch if i can get more than 2 sata connections. Does anyone know if the new atom boards will? the two i have saw are both 2 x Sata
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Sorry to bump this thread, but I'm really interested in the troubles you've had with the J7F4 1.2GHz fanless.

What problems were you having? Did you resolve them?

I bought this to act as a small file server, but it's the most unstable piece of **** I've ever used :( As soon as I try to do anything over the network, I get a BSOD on a fresh install of XP SP2. BSOD is with processr.sys and searching the net, there are loads of people who've experienced lock ups with Linux. A suggestion revolves around disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but then you'd lose the power management features.

I've updated mine to the latest BIOS and also tried a different NIC in case it was the on board but it's still bad. Copying files from one local harddrive to the other is more stable, but after a few minutes, it BSODs with the same message.

I'm on the verge of returning this and going for an atom-based board. They're cheaper and I can use the PCI slot to add GbE. I only have one big 3.5" HDD so don't needs loads of SATA ports. Just decent power consumption and stability with the ability to have some kind of gigabit ethernet working too.
 
Been looking at a Mini ITX box for a while now but now ive seen the Ebox im going to wait, it has way lower power cosumption, smaller that the vast majourity of mini itx cases and its got gigabut lan which is perfect for a download box.
 
I'm using a CV700A motherboard based system under pretty heavy linux use with no problems. You can pick up an entire unit sans hdd/ram for around £300

Mind you an atom with 1.6Ghz on a 945GC is just under £60 now.
 
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