Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

[Siegbert Baude]

Hi Chris and Matthew,

>>    Yes.  I use it to boot my kitchen and office workstations.
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>Ditto here -- kitchen from rack system in the basement.
>Computers in the kitchen are good, quiet is good  :-)
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Are your machines completely diskless then? Which kind of PSU do you use 
then? Some of these low-power external ones? I really would like to get 
rid of every fan in such an EPIA machine. Both because of the sound and 
the possible failure source. With no mechanical parts left inside the 
computer, it should also be robust enough, to be tossen around in the 
kitchen by children.
Another possible use would be as multimedia centre in the living room, 
but I suspect you would need the 1GHz version then (or what about the 
newer chipsets? They should have some hardware acceleration to make life 
easuer for the processor?). Is it possible to pasive cool this one, if 
there is no additional heat source like a harddisk or PSU in the case?

Thanks for sharing your experience here.

Ciao
Siegbert