[nzlug] D201GLY2

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 11:51 am, Peter wrote:
> Have you guys discovered these?
> Intel D201GLY2 (MoB+CPU available here for under $110.)
> http://www.fdc.net.nz/productsandservices/itemdetails.asp?itemid=164449
>
> Add a 1GB DDR2 667 RAM chip and a picopsu DC PSU and you have a really
> cheap quiet computer with 150 possible uses. Ideal for NAS/gateway/media
> whatever servers. Theres obviously plenty of corners been cut to get it
> down to this price, but it runs fine as a office desktop box, play DVDs
> without grief and the on board sound is pretty fair.
>
> It has an embedded Conroe chip running at 1.2G, I have been heartily
> impressed with the compromise intel made between performance and energy
> efficiency.  Its a passively cooled competitor to the overpriced EPIA
> stuff, uses 25W total. Not as low as some EPIA or Alix type baords, but
> more powerful by a long shot and cheaper aswell. If this is a foot in the
> water in terms of future 45nm Atom boards, cool.
>
> You just have to watch hardware compatibility. People have reported their
> ram chips wont work, and i had trouble with 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapters.
> Stick to basic stuff.
>

I was looking at these about 6 months ago for a potential solution, the
only problem being performance. In the end the spec required H264 support
so this board was too low spec..

The newer Atom based version looks interesting

http://www.fdc.net.nz/productsandservices/itemdetails.asp?itemid=174111

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