On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:48:37 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? > > If anyone does have a Zotac IONITX-A, how is the heat dissipation? Fan > or no fan? > > Cheers, > > Chris > On a slightly related note > PS: Alternatively, there has been some mention [1] of a dual-core > Ion-based device for the next AppleTV model or Mac Mini. > > [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-nvidia-ion,6849.html
Hi, I got Atom 330 with this motherboard sice six months or so. http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D/D945GCLF2-D945GCLF2D-overview.htm The machine runs all right, but the compilation times are similar to *very* outdated Celeron 1.7 GHz (which is one core only). The Atom goes very snappy on every other task it performs (software mirror, backup, rsync, remote NX station, email, iscsi, puppet, pulseaudio server etc.), but compilation times *are* slow. I cannot give you reliable output of equery list | while read x; do genlop -t $x; done because compilation times were so large, I started to compile on another machine using distcc. If you want me to schedule a short example, write me. Janusz.
