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The Battle of Low-Power Processors: Best Choice for a Nettop

Started by: CSMR | Date 09/25/08 10:58:35 PM
Comments: 20 | Last Comment:  10/02/08 10:58:36 AM

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Awful choice of system!
The article is called "low power processors: best choice for a nettop" but then you build high-power, low-performance systems! "A raptor, just the thing for my nettop"!
A low power system based on atom processors should consume about 15W idle, 25W load:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article867-page5.html
And here is a system that is hugely more powerful than yours and lower-power at the same time (look at E7200 figures):
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article869-page5.html
[Posted by: CSMR  | Date: 09/25/08 10:58:35 PM]
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Hi,

what kind of power supply were you using for the test ?
That could be very important, too.

thx

Bingle
[Posted by: Bingle  | Date: 09/26/08 02:33:27 AM]
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There is no AMD systems. Combining Jetway JNC62K, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4850e, and a 2.5 inch hard drive will probably use less than 100 watts. Sure it will consume more power than those setups that you tested, but it will be more powerful and more useful in the graphics area. It can also be used in Linux with out any sacrifice of features.
[Posted by: jmurbank  | Date: 09/26/08 04:52:29 PM]
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Good review, however comparing against a low clock celeron M such as the ones used in the original EEE would've been helpful, ie 630mhz or 900mhz celeron m.
[Posted by: blzd  | Date: 09/26/08 05:28:25 PM]
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Where is Athlon 2000 with 8W TDP ?
[Posted by: mariusmotea  | Date: 09/27/08 02:32:16 AM]
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Hi,

are you working together with a Chinese site ?
If not, they copied your article:

http://en.hardspell.com/d...s_id=4155&pageid=3394

Better use watermarks in all your pictures next time ..

cheers

Bingle

P.S: Maybe I should ask about the used power supply there, too ^^
[Posted by: Bingle  | Date: 09/28/08 08:36:29 AM]
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Hi, could you please test the HD video decode with a better codec, like CoreAVC; http://www.coreavc.com/
It uses less resources so maybe it would be able to help the Atom systems decode even FullHD material?

Also ATI has it's 2400 card available in PCI format, that offers HD video offload if used with supported applications, Cyberlinks H.264 codec for ATI cards; http://docs.cyberlink.com...264_decoder/enu/index.jsp

EDIT; and on second thought you would need an add in card to do proper HD playback, since it does not support HDCP protection by default... (VGA only)
[Posted by: Per Hansson  | Date: 09/28/08 12:08:09 PM]
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Which power supply you are using? My MSI Wind PC barebone based Atom system idled at 20W with a 3.5" HDD. Without it (OS installed on CF card as MB has a CF slot), it consumes only 18W!

Considering the PSU efficency, I would say Atom syste consumes about 15W at idle. It does not make sense to feed a 15W system with a 500W+ PSU which would eats 40W by itself.

Just FYI, my PSU is 65W rated.
[Posted by: Roy2001  | Date: 09/28/08 10:23:27 PM]
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