Hey Tony, I'm getting ready to move the station software over to a "new" system I built:
Motherboard:
http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GCLF2D-Mini-ITX-Motherboard (mine is the D945GCLF2, older
)
EDIT: This one looks even better:
http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D525MWV-Mini-ITX-Motherboard for $3 more.
In a media center case (way too big, but got me backplane openings without using a riser card
)
Old 400W supply ( leftover from my original P4 case, cheaper
)
Seagate 120G 2.5" laptop SATA drive, mounted on a homebrew mounting plate attached to a slot filler plate at back of case, just can't find locally 2.5 to 3.5 adapter rails in town, 3.5 to 5.25, no problems.
Windows 2k, only sees the Atom as a dual core, XP saw it as a quad core (HT support
), just checked, W2K is max 2 cpu's
oh well!
Tried it out without extra case fan, draws about 30 watts at idle, with extra fan and Cumulus, VVP and GPSDiag running ~40 watts, about 25% of what the P4 drew idle!!
I got the motherboard given to me by a friend of my daughter, it was in a 1U rack mount server case, the reason I got it, "it won't run Linux"
I loaded up my VoIP PBX software (Asterisk Linux
) and it ran!! Had to get the little tinplate backplane plate online, he couldn't find the original.
I'm hoping that the Boltek will work in the single PCI slot, otherwise this project is gonna be a bust.
See the sceenshot below, I use UltraVNC to monitor the computer, want it to be "headless" when finished, even less power without feeding a mouse and keyboard.
George