Hi, I'm running an OpenBSD on a machine that uses about 24 Watts. The machine is an intel celeron 500MHz, 128MB RAM, cdrom, three realtek nics and the system runs under a pendrive. I take the hardware from an old IBM PC300GL machine. This processor does not need cooler, the uniq cooler is inside the power supply. I do not use hard disk and the cdrom is for boot only, but I can use it after that. Note that the USB interface is 1.1 only, but for me it is ok. The motherboard has two usb ports, serial, parallel, audio and video onboard.
Cheers, Paulo. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:31:52PM +1000, Timothy Hume wrote: * Hi, * * My current PC is not very healthy. I am considering building a new low * power consumption machine. I want something a bit more powerful than a * Soekris, but it doesn't have to be the fastest machine around. I will * be using the machine for web browsing, Email, managing my digital * photos and so on. The main requirement is that the machine is quiet * and has a low power consumption so I can leave it on all the time. I * obviously want to build something which works "perfectly" with * OpenBSD. * * Is it possible to build something like I describe which uses under 30 * Watts, and if so, what hardware would people recommend? * * Cheers, * * Tim. * -- Paulo Manoel Mafra Grupo de Computacao Segura e Confiavel - GCSEG Departamento de Automacao e Sistemas Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina "Vitam Impendere Vero"
