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New Atom board and processor coming

eganders_01
Interesting news for those wanting to build small, efficient and capable Astaro boxes.

1st quarter 2010 there will be one (or more?) new Atom CPU's and chipsets (integrated on new motherboard(s)) shipping.  Apparently the new products are designed to deliver good system performance improvement - not only through native speed boosts, but also better bus and chip designs and better power management.


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    Hi, my MSI board works great, but is somewhat expensive ($175USD). The whole system runs at 17 watts.

    Yes, you can add a PCI card, as long as you get a case with a PCI slot (and PCI riser if the case is low-profile). Or you can use VLANs like I am.

    AnandTech has a review of PineTrail, including a new motherboard from Intel (single NIC+1 PCI). The dual-core D520 runs around 25 watts, which is probably a big improvement over the previous low-end boards.

    afaik, the low-power VIA systems are slower than the Atoms. AMD is supposed to come out with an Atom competitor, but it's behind schedule.

    Barry
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    AnandTech has a review of PineTrail, including a new motherboard from Intel (single NIC+1 PCI). The dual-core D520 runs around 25 watts, which is probably a big improvement over the previous low-end boards.


    Thanks for pointing out the article Barry!

    For those interested, I believe Barry's referring to AnandTech's Intel D510 article from 12/21.  The motherboard info starts on page 3 of the review.

    Here's a link:
    AnandTech: Intel Atom D510: Pine Trail Boosts Performance, Cuts Power
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