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| Turnarcades:
Go to mini-itx.com and check out an all-in-one package from VIA (Epia series), or similar. I use them in my Box Arcade projects and they are great. Bit of advice though; I wouldn't use the compact flash option if you intend to use this for many tasks like a regular PC - the read/write cycles are slower and less stable than using a mechanical magnetic disk drive, as I've found out with several corrupted CF drives. If you want to save space, use a 2.5" laptop drive instead. They are larger anyway and still run fairly quiet. Oh, and grab a nice Cube shell for it with possibly an LCD display and a DVD drive - this makes it a music/video centre on it's own should you ever want it that way. |
| pmc:
--- Quote from: samshaw946 on January 04, 2008, 11:17:54 pm ---Bit of advice though; I wouldn't use the compact flash option if you intend to use this for many tasks like a regular PC - the read/write cycles are slower and less stable than using a mechanical magnetic disk drive, as I've found out with several corrupted CF drives. --- End quote --- I didn't know that. I'll have to learn a bit more about that. I really wanted to go solid-state but perhaps a quiet 2.5" drive would be OK. More $ though. --- Quote from: Kremmit on January 04, 2008, 10:48:09 pm ---These look good, especially for the price: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article780-page1.html --- End quote --- Yah... looks like I can get it for $70 shipped. That's more in line with what I was looking for. I'm surprised that newegg doesn't sell these. I'll follow up with all the other suggestions on this thread. Lots to consider. I've been using PCLinuxOS 2007 recently and it's nice enough that I may just go that route rather than look for a slim Linux. Thanks for all the pointers so far... -pmc |
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