[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:47:44PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote:

> Not sure if the current Atom motherboards can be classed as ruthlessly
> efficient. There are a few sites on the net that have found that
> performance per watt is not as good as for Pentium-M chips:
> http://tinyurl.com/5nu83h
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I love my D945GCLF. Since it's on anyway all the
> time I don't really mind if it takes twice as long to transcode. I am
> just a little bit disappointed that the whole motherboard and chip
> consume about 41W of power when the procesor only takes 4W of that - I
> suspect it may be better with future Atom's though.

Is there any reason that the Atom CPU couldn't have been paired with the
SiS chip used on other low powered Intel boards, like the little valley
stuff? 

I'd rather burn the extra power than use SiS though.