[Gllug] You are a bad man.

[Matthew Allum]

on Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 07:44:45PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> Mallum, you are a bad man.

:( I try not to be ... honest !
 
> I cannot get the though if these mini-ITX boards out
> of my mind, and have a compulsion to buy a few for a cluster.
> 
> I would really like the new M-sees M6000 board, which is
> sweet and has built-in firewire. But it is twice as expensive,
> and also needs DDR RAM, which is again expensive if you are buying
> four.
> 
Oooh, I havn't heard of this one. 

> Choosing between the EPIA800 and EPIA5000 what do you think?
> 
> The 5000 is passively cooled, so will be queit in the spare bedroom
> and throw off less heat.
> But the 800 has more CPU power - I think much more.

Yes I went for the 800 cos I decided CPU power ( for Mame / snes9x
really ) was more important to me than a little noise ... and it is
still pretty quiet. There is some hum from it but definetly a lot less
that of my desktop.

> Sigh...
> 
> BTW, I like the Chayang Fun aluminium case on the Linitx site.
> Whats your opinion on cases please?
> 

I just got the cheapy grey / silver case there. It does seem well
made and everything fitted no problem ( it fits a full size DVD/CDROM
drive, rather than other which only fit a slim line cdrom ).

Oh and for your amusement - here's a shot of its output connected to
the TV;

http://www.handhelds.org/~mallum/mbontv.jpg

As you can see unfortunately the X tvout drivers still need a little
work. But epia have made all the specs available so I guess its only a
matter of time till some kind soul sorts this out. 

  -- Matthew



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