[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Lionel Peterson]

On Aug 15, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> 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.

Well there is that, and the 945 chipset is very well supported by many  
OS.

The new board graphics are much better than the SiS chpsets in  
previous Little Valley MB.

Lionel