Christopher Friedt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For a long time I've been considering various mini-itx form-factor > devices for multi-purpose use at home, as an HTPC, NAS, maybe messing > around with osx86, etc. > > One particular use that I wanted to make of such a device would be to > use it as my own personal compile-farm, for various arm > cross-compilation builds, and binary packages for my laptop / netbook. > > Recently, I was considering the Zotac IONITX-A. I would consider this > a fairly powerful, yet low-power device, with an Atom 330 dual-core > processor at 1.6 GHz and nVidia GPU ( Ion / 9400m ). I'm more than > certain that it would work well as an HTPC, but for a personal build > machine, I'd like to hear some feedback. > > Does anyone on the list have a similar network-appliance that they use > for a personal compile-farm ? Neither of my aging x86 machines offer > any CPU features greater than sse2, and neither have multiple-cores. > > For those who have a multi-core compile-farm at home, is there a > largely noticeable difference in speed? > > I don't have an atom myself but from looking at the specs, for the same amount of money, i'd think you'd be better of with a single machine with lots of RAM and 4 to 8 cores with lots of cache for compiling.
Then multiple of those more powerful machines if you need. -- -- Karl Hiramoto http://karl.hiramoto.org/
