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Compared to an ATX board, this thing is damn small. I mean SMALL!
It has about everything a board should have, just minimized.
On the board:
1 DDR2, 533mhz slot.
1 Pci slot
1 USB, Firewire, Audio ports on the board
1 fan connector for the small northbridge fan
2 Sata ports
1 Pata port
Back panel:
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
Parallel port
Serial port
VGA out
4 USB2.0
Gigabit Ethernet
S-Video
3 audio connectors
It is odd that the CPU is passively cooled, while the Northbridge has a fan on it.
The board is pretty fast, just do not put the jumper on your IDE DVD-Rom wrong.
I accidentially did that, and it slows to a crawl, that Dvd-rom was an old one, so it didn't say where to put the jumper. But after that was fixed, it does run a lot smoother.The Atom 330 does run on x64, So i am running XP x64 on it now, been a few days since its been on 24/7, it uses way less power than a normal desktop.
I took this from here, and it sounds quite intruding.
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Atom 330 @ 41W * 8760 hours = 359,160 W/hr = 359.16kWhr
E8500 @ 92W * 8760 hours = 805,920 W/hr = 805.92kWhr
Now let's say we pay $0.10/kWhr
Atom 330 would use $35.91 in electricity running for a year
E8500 would use $80.59 in electricity running for a year.
Now let's say we are in a place that charges $0.25/kWhr
Atom 330: $89.79 for a year
E8500: $201.48 for a year
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I like it, use it as a File/BT server. As seen above, it runs on very low electricity.
I only wish this was available sooner.
Score: 9/10 Because it could use a few more things, like dual Dimm slots, more PCI, possibly PCI-X, but otherwise a very low profile and power consuming board.
sweet stuff. How does the Atom benchmark?
