[geeks] New small Intel Board

[Mark]

On 5 Jun 2008, at 23:04, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D945GCLF/index.htm
>
> That is a new Atom board.  It is slightly more expensive than the  
> recent
> little valley celeron boards, but this time they include Intel  
> graphics
> instead of SIS graphics.  So, it might not run Solaris as well as the
> LV2, but it probably runs desktop linux a lot better.

I'm very tempted, but then I think about the cost of adding SATA  
drives, DDR2 RAM, a Mini ITX case and all the other stuff and I kinda  
think twice.

Does anyone think it'd be any faster than a Pentium 4 2.8HT? I know  
it'd use a lot less power. I'm tempted to lob the P4 board out of my  
old ex-games PC and replace it with that, just because it's got all  
the bits there I need and it's a lot more economical. Even though it's  
in a huge ATX case, which would dwarf the board, it'd still be cool.  
That way I could buy a decent size Mini ITX case at a later date and  
transfer the guts over as and when, I've got a 80GB boot drive (SATA)  
and a 200GB ATA133 kicking about spare...

I really wanted to use my old Games PC as a media center, does anyone  
think this thing would struggle with HD video? A PCI TV tuner wouldn't  
be a problem, and if done right the Intel video isn't to bad for  
media, apparently. The Mac mini certainly copes okay.

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