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On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:48:37 Christopher Friedt wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> For a long time I've been considering various mini-itx form-factor |
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> devices for multi-purpose use at home, as an HTPC, NAS, maybe messing |
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> around with osx86, etc. |
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> One particular use that I wanted to make of such a device would be to |
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> use it as my own personal compile-farm, for various arm |
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> cross-compilation builds, and binary packages for my laptop / netbook. |
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> Recently, I was considering the Zotac IONITX-A. I would consider this |
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> a fairly powerful, yet low-power device, with an Atom 330 dual-core |
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> processor at 1.6 GHz and nVidia GPU ( Ion / 9400m ). I'm more than |
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> certain that it would work well as an HTPC, but for a personal build |
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> machine, I'd like to hear some feedback. |
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> Does anyone on the list have a similar network-appliance that they use |
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> for a personal compile-farm ? Neither of my aging x86 machines offer |
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> any CPU features greater than sse2, and neither have multiple-cores. |
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> For those who have a multi-core compile-farm at home, is there a |
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> largely noticeable difference in speed? |
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> If anyone does have a Zotac IONITX-A, how is the heat dissipation? Fan |
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> or no fan? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Chris |
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> On a slightly related note |
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> PS: Alternatively, there has been some mention [1] of a dual-core |
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> Ion-based device for the next AppleTV model or Mac Mini. |
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> [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html |
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Hi, I got Atom 330 with this motherboard sice six months or so. |
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http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D-overview.htm |
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The machine runs all right, but the compilation times are similar to *very* |
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outdated Celeron 1.7 GHz (which is one core only). The Atom goes very snappy |
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on every other task it performs (software mirror, backup, rsync, remote NX |
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station, email, iscsi, puppet, pulseaudio server etc.), |
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but |
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compilation times *are* slow. |
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I cannot give you reliable output of equery list | while read x; do genlop -t |
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$x; done because compilation times were so large, I started to compile on |
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another machine using distcc. If you want me to schedule a short example, |
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write me. |
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Janusz. |
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