MSI INTEL 1.6GHZ ATOM 230 CPU ON BOARD 533FSB INTEL 945GC+ICH7GMA 9501GB DDRII SO (936-6496-033) Motherboard Reviews

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This MSI computer seems to be a good machine. I couldn't get the built in Wi-Fi to work though. from Amazon.com The Wind PC is ***NOT*** intended to play videos or games. How foolish can anyone be to assume so when it has a 1.6GHz dual core processor ? This CPU *typically* uses less than 1.0 watt of power. from Amazon.com Good: Small form factor, reasonably fast, lower power consumption than the micro-ATX PC that it replaced, compatible with Debian and boots from a SDHC card. Bad: Could still be smaller (the drive bays are unnecessary for my purposes). It could draw even less power if the chipset were so optimized (none of its competitors are, either). The blue LED on the front blinds me with the light of a thousand suns. from Amazon.com I needed something that could run 24/7 as a file server that could be occasionally used as a Desktop. While I would not recommend this as an everyday desktop, it gets the job done. from Amazon.com I work for a company that rents PC's. We needed to bring some newer, faster, smaller PC's into our fleet and this fit the bill perfect. Small and compact yet still easy to work on. from Amazon.com This barebone does not come with memory, hard drive, mini-PCI card, optical hard drive, or compact flash card. Anyway, I bought this machine to build my low power file server, and was planning to add two hard drives into it. There is only one 3.5" slot and the other slot is 5.25" for optical drive. So I purchased a bracket to accommodate the second hard drive. from Amazon.com It's a pretty decent low power system, and MSI did add a couple of nice things I'll describe below. The box is a bit heavy for the size. from Amazon.com The MSI CS120 does in fact run Windows XP with what seem to be no problems. However, it does not come with an expert system manual, and trying to figure out the key to push on startup so as to set up the bios for a Linux boot is not clear from any documentation. from Amazon.com I purchased one of the single core models like this for personal use, and was so impressed, I got one of these dual core models to use in my "day job." I wanted to experiment to see how well these beasties stood up against the other full sized PCs we use. I started out using Ubuntu Linux, but plan to try XP on it as well. from Amazon.com COOL > There is no hard drive, memory, or disc drive. So you can choose what you want and save money, and choose low power hard disk > Only 30 W of power are required :-) Earth will thank you from Amazon.com

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MSI INTEL 1.6GHZ ATOM 230 CPU ON BOARD 533FSB INTEL 945GC+ICH7GMA 9501GB DDRII SO (936-6496-033) Motherboard Reviews

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Specs

Released	9 months ago
Compatible Processors	Intel Atom
Memory Type	DDR2 SDRAM
Number of Memory Slots	1 x SO-DIMM
Chipset	Intel 945GC
Chassis Type	Desktop
Compatibility	PC
Form Factor	ATX
Front Side Bus Speed	533 MHz
MPN	936-6496-033
On Board Graphic Processor	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Supported RAM speeds	533 MHz
UPC	816909052251