Re: Re: Low power PC option

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Plus you can always get USB-RS232 adapters or a serial port PCI card.

I'm seriously considering a mini-itx board to run everything except
media serving.  My current server is on 24/7 and accounts for about 10%
of my electricity bill!  A very low power PC as domain server, email,
document sharing, audio, intranet and xPL (with another PC to serve
movies only fired-up when needed) should cut my power consumption
considerably.

Mal



Chris Hunter wrote:
>
> FWIW, the VIA EK10000 has four RS232 ports ...
>
> Chris
>
> On 27 Aug 2007, at 09:25, Jim Noble wrote:
>
> > David Gumbrell wrote:
> >> I guess since I've bought the rack case already and can
re-use it,
> >> and can
> >> probably re-use the memory and power supply, hard disk and
dvd too
> >> this
> >> upgrade would be reasonable. Using onboard graphics, I just
have
> >> to find a
> >> motherboard that still has a serial port !
> >>
> >
> > Annoying, isn't it. Even worse when you want more than one.
> >
> > I've ended up using the Flex ATX version of this:
> >
> > http://uk.kontron.com/index.php?id=226&cat=275&productid=1835
> <http://uk.kontron.com/index.php?id=226&cat=275&productid=1835>
> >
> > Cost a fair bit more than an off-the-shelf motherboard, but has 4
> > serial
> > ports!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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