Dual Core Atom: Intel D945GCLF2 & Atom 330 Review

Good day,

Bill reviewed the Atom 330 today (a super-lower power, powerful, little itty bitty zippy zappy motherboard'n'CPU. )



http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/D945GCLF2_atom_330/

1080p test?

One thing I found is they could have found a quieter fan for it. I ended up taking the stock one off and mounting a slow spinning 120mm fan right above the old one whole computer runs much colder since moves over 10 times the air and is almost zero noise

You missed the point on this review. No one cares that it runs some game at 6 FPS, or how many whetstone operations it can do. We care about whether it can play HD content in XBMC running in linux. We care about whether it can decode blue-ray content. That is what this board is going to be used for in 85 % of the cases and the fact that intel left off an HDMI port seems to say it won't be able to and that Intel has missed the mark completely. Please run some more tests and let us know.

could someone built a usable home server with this mobo/cpu?

it sure does have Gigabit Ethernet. how could someone solve the redundancy problem, using RAID??? is there any PCI card to do the job???

thanks

Just put the windows 7 beta on this board and after using xp for the last 7 years and I have to say that even for a beta this os feels real nice. Install took about 15 minutes and there was no need to install any drivers, at least not the 4 intel gives you with the board. I installed on my 2nd 640 GB sata and it installed a MBR that appearently scrubbed my grub menu as on reboot it offered me only xp and 7 from 7's menu. Ubuntu was still there but no way to boot to it. when I'm done fiddling with 7 beta I'll try and reinstall the grub again.
Anyway, xp runs a lil faster than Ubuntu, and this beta build of Vista 2 or windows 7(call it what you will) seems to be a lil faster than xp.
Have only had one program that wouldn't install right and it was an old dvd ripping program i bought at wal-mart 5 years ago for $3.95usd.
Other than that everything seems to work correctly but its hard to tell since I've never used Vista, so only comparing to xp.
Theoretically, you could pull a D945GCLF2 out of the box and other than case assembly, you could be up and running in about 20-25 minutes

quote IrishBiker

I have one of these boards running OS X 10.5.5, Windoze XP Pro and Ubuntu Linux (running Compiz-Fusion)

I did a Google search for multi-booting this particular motherboard with OS X, Windows XP and Windows 7 and this thread came up. Not really getting much in the way of "how-to" results so I was just wondering if you might be able to point me to instructions on how I might be able to accomplish the above.

Thanks!

awesome review. helped very much. keep going that way.