Intel D945GCLF2 itty bitty board

[willawake]

just something to fuck around with

[dood]

Re: itty bitty board

What's the processor specs? Reminds me of a few old Duron boards that we used to have at the school that had the processor soldered right on the board. Pain in the ass, mostly.

[willawake]

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has intel atom 1.6 dual core 533 bus

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...CLF2_atom_330/

only support ddr2 533/667

its got a realtek gigabit lan though

[Wizard]

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Newer type of heatsink for chipset. Mine is TALLER, and single core.

Will do many things rather well now that you have dual core atom.

What hamstrings it is no PCI-E slot for video card and better LAN chipset and a HOT chipset. Intel still delaying the newer chipset that's cooler. :P

Cheers, Wizard

[i4004]

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willa, what's that between lan/usb ports and audio jacks?
don't tell me it has some sort of tv-out?

well, yes it is!
http://www.intel.com/Products/Deskto...2-overview.htm

i thought day intel would put that connector would never come!

price?

[willawake]

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this one was 95 euro
old one was 67-76

there is others like http://www.intel.com/Products/Deskto...K-overview.htm

if core2duo is wanted but that one is like 151 euro and anyway thats getting into specialist territory. i would probably go for Asus P5Q-VM instead for media pc

[willawake]

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installed centos 5.2 x64 on it. needed to install another nic driver though from realtek site otherwise no work. nice performance. interesting little shit with 2gb now less than 20 euro.

manual says the 24pin atx is optional, can use 20 pin instead although it needs the p4 2+2 though. this is interesting because can avoid upgrade of psu on older pc.

wish the ssd were cheaper for more fun

wonder how many connections this can handle as samba server?

[Wizard]

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Hacking the D945GCLF chipset heatsink to have larger one and passive. I bought two.
One did well for XP simple stuff.

Cheers, Wizard

[willawake]

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nice carputer project
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...-carputer.html

[i4004]

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this one was 95 euro
old one was 67-76

there is others like http://www.intel.com/Products/Deskt...EK-overview.htm

if core2duo is wanted but that one is like 151 euro and anyway thats getting into specialist territory. i would probably go for Asus P5Q-VM instead for media pc

i expected cheaper price.

for media pc(that would do hd) i think i would go for board with integrated ati or nvidia chipset, as they are traditionally better for video acceleration than intel.
plenty of such boards with hdmi outputs etc.

this one(yours) looks like machine that couldn't do hd, which makes it sd machine, and that i can do for less than 90eur(essentially used p3 and p4 machines suffice).
so for media i would skip it, but i bet it'll make excellent server.

oh yeah, are intel engineers reading this site if they're putting samxon now?
<wink>

car, yeah, i thought about that too, but my old car doesn't have console with such space to put it in.

my favorite image?
"dam squirrel is watching me all the time when I was working on my Carputer"
hehe....

i think i would just make some holder and power supply for some of those netbooks, like asus eeepc etc.
and perhaps some sort of amp for the speakers...

[Scenic]

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what?
95EUR ? and the old one 67-76?!!

what the..!?

http://www.mix-computer.de/html/prod...l?artNo=GPIL52

http://www.winner-netshop.de/product...hp?info=p30070

[Wizard]

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Highest price is the Atom 330 (dual core really.)

The lowest one was A270 atom cpu single core and is older.

Cheers, Wizard

[willawake]

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no he is commenting that the german prices are much lower than here. which i know anyway

just finished installing xp64, needed again to get another lan driver from realtek. works fine.

the browsing experience was slightly faster in centos i believe. still its more than fine. in centos i tried google earth, had to disable atmospheric something cos it was unusable otherwise. i thought this was limitations of the gpu but in xp no such issue

i think its interesting enough that i will get an enclosure for it. still didnt choose purpose yet just messing with the itty bitty technology