Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:57:35PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> > No, but if you find something, please post!  I've been searching for
> > something that is nice and small yet has more power than say a
> > Soekris box and can handle more than one or two ethernet cards. 
> > Isn't there also another mini form factor?  I see that places like
> > Iron Systems and other rack-mount outlets have some boxes that aren't
> > mini-itx, but are still only 14" deep (about the size of an old Cisco
> > 25xx router)...
> 
> Those mostly use Micro-ATX form factor boards.  Some of them are getting 
> dirt cheap, too; a local screwdriver shop advertises one with a P4 for 
> $499 these days.  Wowsers.  Probably a crappy motherboard, but toss in 
> another $100 for a good mobo & power supply and you've got yourself 
> quite a 1u system.  Then just wait for them to overheat...

The Iron Systems A110's are Via C3's on mini-itx boards.  I've got four
of them.  They definaly won't overheat.  If anything, they are over
cooled.  They are quite loud.  If you do buy a 1U box, make sure the
vendor does real thermal testing.  It's hard to cool something that
small and there's a lot of crap out there.

-- Brooks

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