On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 17:33:05 PM +0200, Peter Boy (pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Am Montag, den 29.08.2005, 16:01 +0200 schrieb M. Fioretti: > > 1) Case must be Antec Aria: > > You might use a shuttle G85 / G95 (AMD 64) or an AOpen EY 855 (Pentium > M). They need *custom* motherboards, don't they? I mentioned that I want to avoid that, it would be just as limiting as a laptop when it's time to replace/repair/upgrade. > > 2) the whole thing must be always _silent_ and, at least when in idle > > mode, it should dissipate as little power as possible (< 50 > > W?). Even when at 100% CPU usage, it shouldn't require a separate > > power plant, please. > > Not much to do with Linux. Really? I asked because some years ago this was one of the arguments in favour of Linux, that is the fact that, when nobody was using the PC, the software would not throttle the CPU as much as Windows. How do things stand now? > You may select a motherboard which supports Intels Pentium M (AOpen or > MSI deliver one) or for an AMD 64 / nForce 3 chip set with rather a low > processor speed. Well, what I wanted to know is (also) exactly which micro-atx motherboards with the CPU/chipset you mention work 100% under Fedora. TIA, Marco -- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ Knowledge is not information, it's transformation- Osho
