ECS Shows Atom Mobo With PCI-e x16 Slot
During Computex, Elitegroup Computer Systems showcased an Atom motherboard featuring a x16 PCI Express slot.
This is the Atom board to get. Just put in a supported GPU and off you go.
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Intel Mac mini CPU madness - how (s)low can you go?
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This is the Atom board to get. Just put in a supported GPU and off you go.
Yes, they were quite the in-thing for a while with quite a few forum threads everywhere dedicated to them and frequently out of stock. I remember the agonising people went through to open them up to replace the small hard drive with something bigger or to bump up the RAM because it meant cutting through the warranty sticker. Perks of living in the EU meant I just ignored that nonsense and dug straight in.
Anyway, you'll want the R3600 or the 1600 if you want to realise your dream of running El Capitan under duress but I remember people having problems with it at the time and recommending the R3610 instead.
And what are you doing with lightbulbs these days?
Actually, that reminds me that my brother actually bought an Atom system a few years back with a slot etc. He used it as a Vortex box to host his music collection. I offered to get him an old Mac Mini, which would have done the same job taking up less room but he pulled the trigger on it before I could stop him. Wasn't cheap, either.ECS Shows Atom Mobo With PCI-e x16 Slot
During Computex, Elitegroup Computer Systems showcased an Atom motherboard featuring a x16 PCI Express slot.www.tomshardware.com
This is the Atom board to get. Just put in a supported GPU and off you go.
ECS Shows Atom Mobo With PCI-e x16 Slot
During Computex, Elitegroup Computer Systems showcased an Atom motherboard featuring a x16 PCI Express slot.
This is the Atom board to get. Just put in a supported GPU and off you go.
oh very neat! for some reason a lot of these atom boards have very weak expansion, either just 1 PCI regular slot or only a PCIe x1 slot
so yeah would not mind getting one of those as you say!
Tis one of my other main hobbies, where do you think the User name and profile picture come from!
I collect and have a large collection of lightbulbs of all types shapes sizes and ages(said profile picture is of my Philips Mi36, 55W SOX Low pressure sodium street light, running up, next to one of my G5s!)
and I think I shared this picture before of my 180W SOX lamp next to my Sawtooth (and IIRC if you go into @eyoungren 2 of my favourite things thread you will find a picture of my 1500W incandescent lightbulb next to one of my G5s again)
but to bring it back on topic, I ran GB3 on the Asus EEE PC 701 under OS X 10.6.8 while I still had that install
Asus EEE PC 701 Hackintosh - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a MacPro3,1 with an Intel Celeron M 900MHz processor.
browser.geekbench.com
for comparisons here is my Asus 1005HA which runs a 1.6Ghz Atom N270
Asus 1005HA Hackintosh - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a MacBook1,1 with an Intel Atom N270 processor.
browser.geekbench.com
and my AppleTV1,1
AppleTV1,1 - Geekbench
Benchmark results for an AppleTV1,1 with an Intel 1.00GHz processor.
browser.geekbench.com
Just a heads-up that I've asked the mods to move this thread to the "Early Intel Macs" subforum as it would be more appropriate there
Great, at long last, an early Intel forum, now you damed x86 kids can get off my lawn.Just a heads-up that I've asked the mods to move this thread to the "Early Intel Macs" subforum as it would be more appropriate there
May the forth be with you.
I know its way to late but here's a Celeron 445 in a Mac proneat stuff! I have often seen slow/whacky CPUs like that and wondered how they would fair in a real mac
I want to see a Celeron 445 in a Mac Pro LOL
Can you share your config? im trying to run 10.5.8 on np-q1 which has specs similar to eeepc
email for conversation demine0 at icloud dot com
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Wait, they have sockets?
Was looking into some G4 models for my collection, early Intel may have to be on my radar now as another addition.
Was looking into some G4 models for my collection, early Intel may have to be on my radar now as another addition.
Only the 2006/2007 ones do.
Socketed CPUs and WiFi cards are pretty much all they’ve going for it. Their GPU is abysmal.
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The last iBooks and PowerBook have better GPU's than the 2006/2007s. I'd say better than the early 2008s too. Those have GMA 950/X3100 iGPUs that are absolutely terrible. Only thing they had going for them was CoreImage support, as well as Windows Aero, which, I think is similar. I had trouble getting titles working on those Intel iGPUs, that would play fine on the old PPC Radeons.
Great to know!
The G4 systems are more on my radar as I have been enjoying my G5 and Quicksilver a lot recently and wouldn't mind a little block on my 2nd desk with nostalgic games and old iphoto libraries.
The G4 systems are more on my radar as I have been enjoying my G5 and Quicksilver a lot recently and wouldn't mind a little block on my 2nd desk with nostalgic games and old iphoto libraries.