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Tue Oct 9 16:17:58 CDT 2007


"With a typical maximum design power of just over 10 watts at 1GHz,
the..."

For some pictures of the board, please see:

http://linitx.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=12&products_id=132

The 600 Mhz board I'm doing some embeded work on is great. Makes a
good irc server, LAME-enc developement box, and standby
shoutcast/icecast server when called for. The box, in fact, is so
small it sits in a file cabinette just dandy:

http://users.hubns.net/ccransom/pictures/xam-itx/index.html

Last I tossed an current meter on this box was before I added an IDE
disk, but I recall .8 to .9 amps of draw at 12v. Not bad for a box
with half a gig of DDR ram, 600mhz proc, and all the fixin's of a full
system.

One note, however. The VIA ethernet MAC & PHY really are the pits for
anything high-load. Do yourself a favor and toss a real NIC into the
box before you starve yourself of interupts :)

Oh, yea, *nix's seem to run just fine on the EPIA/EDEN ITX boards,
some now even have integrated CF and Disk-On-Chip modules, even dual
ethernet interfaces. Check it out:

http://www.mini-itx.com/news/cebit2003-1/

The rest of mini-itx.com is great, too.

Lastly, is anyone here using ITX systems (or planning to) for odd,
crazy, or interesting purposes? <G>

--Tk




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