Creating a low-power machine

On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:17:56 UTC, Rob Perkins
wrote:

John Doe wrote:
I'm not stuck on Windows, I don't even promote Windows. However, as
an unusually active personal computer user, I benefit from all of
the applications Windows supports and all of the hardware which
comes with drivers written for Windows.

Let me offer, too, (with the hope that it doesn't alienate the Smart
People here) that I simply don't care about Windows enough to be swayed
by haughty opinions against it.

The problem with this thread is that it probably shouldn't have been
posted to a non hardware newsgroup...

http://quotes.fivegeeks.net/QUOTES-CS-05.html#q123aaa76

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On Wed, 17 May 2006 18:27:09 UTC, wrote:

On 17 May 2006 15:52:39 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

The problem with this thread is that it probably shouldn't have been
posted to a non hardware newsgroup...

Looks like a pretty "Miscellaneous" topic to me. It has touched on
hardware, software, security and filters, along with the normal thread
drift we always see.

I agree. But that's probably more a result of the cross-posting!
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creating a low power machine......put an AMD in it? Use a 'new' mac?

On Tue, 16 May 2006 14:17:25 -0700, Rob Perkins
wrote:

Yeah, I noticed that. I take your point about old laptops, but I kind of
also wanted this to be a building project. A couple of my kids like
watching me put PC's together.

I'd say scrounge for junkers. People are throwing away good ones. I
have a machine with a via PM266 something-or-other board, and it's
actually a pretty decent board if you don't care about high
performance. It's stable and easy to work with. You should be able
to get one cheap or free nowadays. It takes a celeron or P4 chip, has
integrated sound/gfx, and it's tiny.

Charlie

On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:59:54 -0700, Rob Perkins
wrote:

I'd like to build a

-- low-power
-- fanless (heatsinks, prefer to avoid water cooling)

no need for fanless (& not a goo idea too, run fans on 5V)

Any ideas?

See my site how I did it & have absolutelly silent machine with 7
(seven) fans running, certain schematics are under Electro section ..
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