[App_rpt-users] Mini ITX recomendation

[Doug Bade]

Correction;
The Geeks.com case Ark PI-01 is now 42.99 or so.. I bought 2 on a 
special last week....

Doug
KD8B



At 09:34 AM 9/22/2009, Doug Bade wrote:
>I am building 2 systems with Intel D945GCLF2D boards. I have not had
>them up long enough to say about longevity but the chipset ( the only
>fan) is of poor quality from intel and I have replaced mine with
>better aftermarket versions.
>
>I am experimenting with CF, Microdrives and SD card OS configs and
>dropped back to SATA 2 3.5 as it is just plain fast.... I also have a
>Jetway 945GC board and it has a couple slots and extra usb ports
>compared to the Intel board... albeit a little larger.. all around
>80w power consumption with a sata drive
>
>There is a CF embedded install for the D945GCLF2 board and I was able
>to get it working.. a little learning curve due to the ram based loop
>file system and remembering to save the configs to make them
>persistent as save to ram and save to disk are different things ...
>
>I am also playing with a ASUS Netbook 900 series and have Allstar
>loaded on it.. A solid state HD and 3 usb ports allow up to 3
>repeaters... 199.00 refurb.. and no UPS needed to keep it alive .. No
>dragging a monitor and keyboard to do local edits.. It is not
>deployed yet but operational.. It idles at 13% CPU with the 900 mhz
>celeron M processor... so probably would not run much more than 2 or
>3 repeaters that were busy....
>
>Later Netbooks with SSD and an Atom CPU would probably do better with
>230 or 330 cpu's....
>
>The Intel board is about $69.00 and 1gb ram is $29.00 or so... Case
>and CPU vary....I found a nice little rack on Ebay a while back but
>have not seen them listed lately.. it was about 9 inches deep that I
>want to order but no experience yet.. about 169.00 with PSU... but tiny......
>
>Alternate to that I found some smaller Mini ITX  cases from GEEKS for
>$37.00 ea that come with a 380w PSU and are 13 " deep, not rack but
>small enough to fit in my station..
>
>Doug
>KD8B
>
>
>
>
>At 11:47 PM 9/21/2009, Scott Weis wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >So what Mini ITX hardware would you all recommend for use at a remote
> >repeater site. I've heard horror stories about systems overheating and
> >failing and I would like to try and avoid that.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Scott KB2EAR
> >
> >
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