Low power computing - was Any suggestions, please?

[Michael Haney]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Derek Maciel <ishidableach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, on Newegg you can get a few miniITX barebones that use a VERY
> low amount of power, and combined with a low-power CPU and only
> integrated graphics, it doesn't really generate a lot of heat either.
>

The Atom has a higher MIPS per voltage ratio than CPUs like say the
Core 2 Dual or Core iX CPUs.  They're designed to higher performance
with less electricity.  ARM is the same way, which is why you can have
the Unreal 3.0 and Doom 3 engines run on them and the CPU doesn't even
sweat.

ExtremeTech did a piece once on how to build an Ubuntu PC for about
$200.  They recommended a miniATX motherboard + CPU combo using the
Intel Atom processor which had an Intel x3100 GPU on-board, USB 2.0,
SATA, and a PCI slot (not PCIe though).  They didn't include an
optical drive, but those are really cheap nowadays.  The MicroCenter
in Rockville, MD was selling a ton of IDE DVD-RW internal drives for
like $25-$30.

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