I just looked around. There seem to be many at this price point of just under $200 that all have 6 Watt CPUs in them and several have parallel ports. Anyways, sub-$20 Intell machines for industrial use seem to by plentiful. Much better then a Raspberry Pi for not much more
However if I were setting up a new system I'd not want a parallel port. Ethernet seems to be better and many of these little mini-ITX boards have two Ethernet ports on them, as I assume they are designed to be file servers. In actually I just bought one, kind of. It is a Synology NAS with one of these low-power quad core CPUs inside. It does RAID and will hold all my files with a 10 Watt CPU. (I know it is nothing to to with LCNC, except file storage. I'm looking to consolidate storage and backup On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 6:44 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 9:08:01 PM EST Chris Albertson wrote: > > I followed that link. Wow, that is a good deal. Especially when you > > look at the power supply. It uses a 12 volt barrel jack and a large > > size wall-wort. The CPU burns all of 6 Watts. It could run on > > battery power. > > > > It is good to look for low-power PCs if they are going to run all day, > > every day. The cost of power really adds up. The bix Xeon powered HP > > I use for development work costs maybe 12 cents an hour. That is > > about $400 at the end of the year. > > > > The machine I use to power LCNC and my 3D printer is an Intel i5 and I > > could justify downgrading it based on power-saving along. I had not > > realized there was such things at 6 Watt quad-cord Intel CPUs. > > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 3:35 PM Andy Howell <a...@gamubaru.com> wrote: > > > On 2/2/22 16:31, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 2, 2022 4:42:22 PM EST Andy Howell wrote: > > > >> I was hoping to update to a recent Debian and LinuxCNC version. > > > >> However, I have a 32bit motherboard. This is for our school, so > > > >> I'm > > > >> trying to contain cost by just replacing the motherboard. > > > >> > > > >> Any suggestions for a 64bit mini-itx motherboard? > > > > > > > > Most any NEW mobo today will need a new cpu too since the sockets > > > > are > > > > changed and probably won't take your old memory for the same > > > > reason. > > > > > > > > ATM I'm running a normal sized Asus Z370-AII with the cheapest 6 > > > > core i5 on it and I'm as happy as I can be. Asus makes decent > > > > stuff. Draws about 140 watts less than the phenom it replaced. > > > > > > > > And stay away from OLOy memory, I had a failure and they needed > > > > more data than I had to replace it, so I had to buy a different > > > > brand to replace it. That's BS, so be sure, get it in writing, > > > > that you can get in warranty replacements by simply shipping the > > > > bad one back with a photocopy of the bill of sale. If they won't > > > > do that, go down the list to the next vendor. > > > > > > Gene, > > > > > > It looks like most of the Mini ITX boards have the cpu soldered in. I > > > don't imagine I'd need a lot of memory. 2GB maybe? > > > > > > Looks like this will do the trick. $200 with 2GB of memory. > > > > > > https://www.onlogic.com/pd14ri/ > > > > There is however, one detail that would discourage me, its already EOL, > came out in q4-15, lifespan 4 years, so its approaching 2 years since > last shipped. > > Where is the support, I never got that page to load. > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emc-users mailing list > > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
