[geeks] New small Intel Board

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mark <md.benson at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/06/06 Fri AM 03:09:57 EDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New small Intel Board

>On 6 Jun 2008, at 00:02, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> I would guess that how well this does with HD depends on having a
>> hardware HD compressor and also how well the 945 does at  
>> accelerating HD
>> MPEG2 or H264.
>
>It's roughly the same setup used in the ASUS Eee Box:
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321&p=1
>
>According to Anand, the 1.6 Atom doesn't have the guts to decode most  
>HD video and the chipset has no support for it. That's disappointing.  
>I guess I'll have to look at a low power Core2Duo option instead :(

There are some nice MBs that take darn-near any Socket 775 CPU (up to 1066 MHz FSB, IIRC) like the eVGA e-7150 [0] that include HDMI video output and a fairly decent integrated video adapter. The MB is $80 +/-, add CPU, RAM, storage, chassis and stir till properly integrated ;^)

Lionel

[0] http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0277446