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| twistedbrain... |
 Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:17 pm |
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I'm looking for a Linux desktop system with average performance but
low power consumption.
From this Tom's hardware article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/
intel-e7200-g31,2039.html) and another that at now I can't find, it
seems that Intel Core 2 E7200 + motherboard with Intel G31 chipset
could be the best for low power consumption with good performances
(better ratio performance/consumption than Atom, Nano or Via).
I'm looking for a motherboard+CPU with these features (performances
and low power consumption) or also a system, but I'd like one that
works really well with Linux and so far some ASUS mobo / systems I've
seen are Windows only or can give trouble with Linux.
Someone can give me advice for a Linux system of this type?
Regards to all and thanks to replying people |
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| twistedbrain... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:52 pm |
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On 3 Ott, 10:05, Grant <g_r_a_n... at (no spam) bugsplatter.id.au> wrote:
Quote: I'm running mostly gigabyte mobos (and a couple Intel), including a
G31 (GA-G33M-DS2R) which works well with slack-13 64bit (E6400 + 4GB).
Also had it going with earlier 32bit slackware versions, this board
came out last year but is still current. A friend bought one for
linux (he uses Suse) a few weeks ago.
As for low power, my G31 box was happy to run off a 300W inverter
for a couple hours recently  Inverter was running stone cold.
Thank You.
Do you know if the Intel matrix storage RAID chipset is supported by
some
Linux driver?
Andrea |
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| Grant... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:05 am |
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 00:17:15 -0700 (PDT), twistedbrain <andrea.ferraris at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: I'm looking for a Linux desktop system with average performance but
low power consumption.
From this Tom's hardware article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/
intel-e7200-g31,2039.html) and another that at now I can't find, it
seems that Intel Core 2 E7200 + motherboard with Intel G31 chipset
could be the best for low power consumption with good performances
(better ratio performance/consumption than Atom, Nano or Via).
I'm looking for a motherboard+CPU with these features (performances
and low power consumption) or also a system, but I'd like one that
works really well with Linux and so far some ASUS mobo / systems I've
seen are Windows only or can give trouble with Linux.
I'm running mostly gigabyte mobos (and a couple Intel), including a
G31 (GA-G33M-DS2R) which works well with slack-13 64bit (E6400 + 4GB).
Also had it going with earlier 32bit slackware versions, this board
came out last year but is still current. A friend bought one for
linux (he uses Suse) a few weeks ago.
As for low power, my G31 box was happy to run off a 300W inverter
for a couple hours recently Inverter was running stone cold.
Grant.
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| Grant... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:15 am |
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 01:52:52 -0700 (PDT), twistedbrain <andrea.ferraris at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On 3 Ott, 10:05, Grant <g_r_a_n... at (no spam) bugsplatter.id.au> wrote:
I'm running mostly gigabyte mobos (and a couple Intel), including a
G31 (GA-G33M-DS2R) which works well with slack-13 64bit (E6400 + 4GB). Â
Also had it going with earlier 32bit slackware versions, this board
came out last year but is still current. Â A friend bought one for
linux (he uses Suse) a few weeks ago.
As for low power, my G31 box was happy to run off a 300W inverter
for a couple hours recently  Inverter was running stone cold.
Thank You.
Do you know if the Intel matrix storage RAID chipset is supported by
some
Linux driver?
No idea, sorry.
Grant.
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| twistedbrain... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:29 am |
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On 3 Ott, 16:11, Aragorn <arag... at (no spam) chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
Quote: On Saturday 03 October 2009 09:17 in comp.os.linux.hardware, somebody
identifying as twistedbrain wrote...
I'm looking for a Linux desktop system with average performance but
low power consumption.
From this Tom's hardware article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/
intel-e7200-g31,2039.html) and another that at now I can't find, it
seems that Intel Core 2 E7200 + motherboard with Intel G31 chipset
could be the best for low power consumption with good performances
(better ratio performance/consumption than Atom, Nano or Via).
I'm looking for a motherboard+CPU with these features (performances
and low power consumption) or also a system, but I'd like one that
works really well with Linux and so far some ASUS mobo / systems I've
seen are Windows only or can give trouble with Linux.
Someone can give me advice for a Linux system of this type?
Regards to all and thanks to replying people
Maybe you'll find something of your taste here...
http://linpc.us/
Hope this helps. 
Thank You, I think yes, also if I can't find anywhere consumption
details (not only there) but they sell also PC with 200W PSU, that are
difficult to find.
Andrea |
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| Aragorn... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:11 am |
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On Saturday 03 October 2009 09:17 in comp.os.linux.hardware, somebody
identifying as twistedbrain wrote...
Quote: I'm looking for a Linux desktop system with average performance but
low power consumption.
From this Tom's hardware article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/
intel-e7200-g31,2039.html) and another that at now I can't find, it
seems that Intel Core 2 E7200 + motherboard with Intel G31 chipset
could be the best for low power consumption with good performances
(better ratio performance/consumption than Atom, Nano or Via).
I'm looking for a motherboard+CPU with these features (performances
and low power consumption) or also a system, but I'd like one that
works really well with Linux and so far some ASUS mobo / systems I've
seen are Windows only or can give trouble with Linux.
Someone can give me advice for a Linux system of this type?
Regards to all and thanks to replying people
Maybe you'll find something of your taste here...
http://linpc.us/
Hope this helps. ;-)
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*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157) |
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| B Sellers... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:52 am |
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twistedbrain wrote:
Quote: On 3 Ott, 16:11, Aragorn <arag... at (no spam) chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
On Saturday 03 October 2009 09:17 in comp.os.linux.hardware, somebody
identifying as twistedbrain wrote...
I'm looking for a Linux desktop system with average performance but
low power consumption.
From this Tom's hardware article (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/
intel-e7200-g31,2039.html) and another that at now I can't find, it
seems that Intel Core 2 E7200 + motherboard with Intel G31 chipset
could be the best for low power consumption with good performances
(better ratio performance/consumption than Atom, Nano or Via).
I'm looking for a motherboard+CPU with these features (performances
and low power consumption) or also a system, but I'd like one that
works really well with Linux and so far some ASUS mobo / systems I've
seen are Windows only or can give trouble with Linux.
Someone can give me advice for a Linux system of this type?
Regards to all and thanks to replying people
Maybe you'll find something of your taste here...
http://linpc.us/
Hope this helps. ;-)
Thank You, I think yes, also if I can't find anywhere consumption
details (not only there) but they sell also PC with 200W PSU, that are
difficult to find.
Andrea
What you want to do next is research the processor power usage.
All you need to do is copy the name of the processor to google to
research
it further. The least demanding processor that I wanted to use
was a
dual core Intel Atom at 25 watts but the 1.6 GiHz processor was
reported
as a bit slower than anticipated. I finally gave up trying to
build and settled
for a dual core Athlon at 2 GiHz which is certainly fast enough
for me after
I jammed in 4 GiB of ram. My desktop is in a laptop form factor
with a
short battery life but enough to avoid the purchase of a UPS.
later
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