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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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