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PCI Graphics Card prevents post
I bought a Quadro4 400 NVS (4 screen) PCI Graphics card many years ago and still works in every computer i try but not my new one.
My new pc is a Intel Atom D525MW with 4GB of ram.
As soon as i ...
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External “power brick” style PSUs - are they reliable enough?
Keen to build a quiet, power-efficient always-on HTPC/media server, I've been looking at mini ITX boards that have their own external power-brick style power supply. These appeal because they are ...
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Do the Atom motherboards from Intel support USB boot?
I was unable to find if the Atom boards manufactured by Intel (namely this one: http://ark.intel.com/products/48951/Intel-Desktop-Board-D425KT) support booting from USB.
The D425KT has only two SATA ...
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FreeNAS ZFS questions about CPU, Ram, & HD speed
I'd like to build the most energy efficient NAS possible but still be able to run FreeNAS with ZFS.
I've been looking at Atom processors, but haven't found any that
could support more than 4gb of ...
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All-in-one Intel Atom Mini Pc vs. small NAS [closed]
What are the advantages/disadvantages of using an 'all in one mini pc' as a NAS machine rather than a small dedicated NAS box
Example
For example, these two cateogries:
"Zotac Intel Atom D525 1.8 ...
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Power consumption of Pentium 4 laptop vs Atom nettop? [closed]
I'm using a Pentium 4 laptop (an IBM T42) as a home server, mainly to ssh to my home network from outside. Most of the time the machine is idle.
If I got a new "Nettop", with an Atom D525, for ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu
I used a live CD to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my HP Netbook (Mini Atom 1GHz CPU). I booted it up and then upgraded it to 11.04 Natty Narwhal. From the below I assume it got hacked, so how do I securely ...
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My netbook keeps freezing
I have a Dell Mini 1018 running Windows 7 which has been freezing around 1 to 5 times an hour at for about 60 seconds. The entire system will simply grind to a halt, not just the program I'm using, ...
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Can a PSU power or bad battery affect netbook's heating?
My old netbook (AOA110) is getting extremely hot when connected to charger, (thus it has battery dead above 50%), actual charger is about 20-30% more powerful (current/watts) than original - which ...
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Ram limitations on netbooks - How is it done?
I know this isn't strictly a programming question, but this is still the best place I could think of to ask it.
For a long time now, I've been pondering buying a netbook, but not just any netbook. I ...
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Visual studio 2010 Express edition on Intel Atom N550 based netbook?
The answer was yes for 1.6 Ghz Atom Processors...
For the N550, it's a 1.5 GHz DUAL CORE processor, will it be able to run VS 2010 ?
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Slow Image serving (Windows7 Home + Atom CPU)
I am in the process of rolling out a touchscreen display system that uses Win 7 Home, IIS, SQL 2K8R2 Express all running on an Intel Atom platform.
I am finding that images (served straight from disk ...
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Can I execute 64-bit instructions on my x86-64 CPU under 32-bit Windows?
I am running 32-bit Windows 7 on a 64-bit Intel Atom and I'm wondering whether the OS puts the CPU in a mode that still allows 64-bit instructions to execute or in a full 32-bit compatibility mode ...
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Out of MTRRs at boot
It seems my laptop (an Acer Aspire One AOA150) runs out of MTRRs at boot. I've done some googling on the problem and read that people recommend turning on MTRR sanitizing to fix it, however, it still ...
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Computer power consumption
I have a small single board computer. According to the manual the came with it:
when powered by a 5V ATX power supply, average consumption is 1.90 A (9.5 watts)
when powered by a 12V ATX power ...
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Processor energy management in Windows 7
What does it mean to set the cpu's top performance at 60% under a Windows 7 power plan?
I have an intel atom processor at 1.66Ghz, does that mean it will act as underclocked at 1.00Ghz? Or are there ...
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Low power jboss server [closed]
I found a low power server for home usage with the following spec: 4GB DDR2 800Mhz 64 bit Dual Core Intel Atom D510 (2x 1.66Ghz)
I could also configure the system with solid state disks.
Do you ...
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I have netbook with an atom N450 and DDR3 Does this make sense?
Is this possible or Speccy got it wrong?
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Windows Server 2008 R2 on the Intel D525MW motherboard
Has anyone installed Windows Server 2008 on this motherboard? I know Intel doesn't officially support windows servers on their Atom motherboards.
I would like to build a headless server, so video ...
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What is my Atom's architecture doing?
The short answer is that it's a dual core 64 bit processor at least in my case with a 330. But the Atom's architecture has traits of x64 and x86. So, what is it?
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Is there a big difference between Atom N450 and Atom N280?
is there a big difference between Atom N450 and Atom N280?
(mini laptop)
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SuperSlow raid1/raid6 with dual core Intel Atom
I've just built 2 Atom based servers for home purpose (home backup of my websites and for entertainment)
CPUs are Dual core Atom @1.80 GHz
MainBoards are Gigabyte GA-D525TUD
First server: 2*2TB HD ...
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Determine if Atom n450 CPU running slow on Ubuntu
I have an HP Mini 5102 with an Atom n450
Under Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit the maximum I can set the cpu speed to seems to be 1.3GHz
This could be falsely reported but I'm not sure how to tell.
I've tried ...
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How low-power can a home server get?
I've got quite simple question actually. How green, low-power and efficient x86 home server can I build using consumer parts with rather constrained budget.
After looking through some Google hits ...
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Total number of cores atom n550
I am planning to buy a netbook with an atom N550 processor.
Looking at the spec's. The atom has 2 cores and 4 threads.
So does this mean that each core has 2 threads?
So does this mean I would have ...
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How to disable HT in a Intel Atom D425?
I can't find in the BIOS the option to disable HT.
Is this a BIOS problem or the processor itself doesn't support running as a single core?
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32-bit Ubuntu or 64-bit w/Intel Atom D510 w/4GB RAM?
(I've seen this question and some related ones, and perhaps this is a duplicate although part of my question is specific to the Atom D510.)
I'm going to be installing Ubuntu on a new silent desktop ...
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Does Ubuntu Netbook Remix require an Intel Atom processor?
I have a laptop with an Intel Celeron 1.6GHz processor and 512MB of RAM - a similar spec to current netbooks.
Will I be able to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix on this laptop or will it only work with ...
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Can the NVIDIA ION chipset handle streaming and gaming reasonable well?
I'm considering getting a small-footprint "nettop" computer to use as a home theater PC with my Samsung LN40A550 HDTV. I've been looking at systems like the AS Rock ION HT330, the Acer AspireRevo ...
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Does a power supply draw only as much power as it needs?
I recently built a small mini-itx Intel ATOM-based Ubuntu home server. The case I choose is a small case but only a full size ATX power supply would fit it. I choose a mid-grade OCZ 500 watt modular ...
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Better graphics or better cpu on a budget laptop
Which would have better overall performance on a cheap (~$600) laptop; Intel Atom 330 with Nvidia ion or intel Pentium/Celeron with Intel graphics. I don't need 8 hour battery life and will hopefully ...
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Will this hardware handle Netflix View Instantly? [closed]
I know Intel Atom cpus are limited in their performance. This model seems to have a Nvidia 9400 graphics card. It supposedly plays 1080p video and blueray quite nicely. Will this be able to stream ...
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Netbook performance - 1.33 GHz vs 1.6/1.66 GHz Atom
All new 11" netbooks seem to carry 1.33 GHz Atom Z520 CPU instead of 1.6/1.66 GHz Atom N270/N280. The screen resolution of 11" netbooks make them very appealing, but I'm a bit concerned about their ...
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Cooling Atom CPU with 12cm fan?
Before I go ahead and try to build my very own case to do this... has someone bought a mini-ITX board like the Atom-based Gigabyte GA-GC230D, and removed the small CPU fan that comes with it to ...
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Will new Acer Revo (with Atom 330) be fast enough to be MythTV client/server?
As a geek I really like Atom CPUs but can't find a reason to buy one yet :( Although I was thinking about making my own DVR with NAS and media center functionality. Unfortunately, even today's Acer ...
