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Anyone using mini ITX atom boards?
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DCsegaDH:
I was thinking about getting one of these boards, but it look like using an old Pentium 4 3.0 ghz is better. Does anyone know if the mini ITX atom boards are better than a P4 3.0 ghz on a normal motherboard?  BTW I'm running Mame version 141, but it's on a different PC right now.
LeedsFan:
I used a mini ITX board using Atom 330 processor in this project:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=111218.0

It plays all the classics perfectly fine with no problems. The board you linked to looks slightly more powerful at 1.8GHz (mine is 1.6GHz) so assuming the onboard graphics are at least the same then it should be good to go. Of course at that price it's not exactly cheap. Depends how much you need the small form factor. I would tend to agree that an old Pentium 4 would be just as good.
BobA:
Using an Intel D525MW ITX at 1.8 Ghz and it plays all the classics and neogeo game just fine.  Also does a good job with video playback.   Only disadvantage is that is uses SODIMM to reduce the board size but the laptop memory costs about the same as desktop DDR3 right now.  Using Tiny XP so it boots very fast.  Power consumption is minimal and there is no fan.
EightBySix:
Was just looking at these, but I read that their post routine is quite slow. Can anyone tell me what post times they get (I'm running dos, so don't care about total boot time)
BobA:
Total boot time is 20 seconds Post is about 6 seconds.
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