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Possible candidate for Farm?

That's really interesting. The only thing I'm interested in is the power requirements.

 
Good find - a Tournelle stack would be appropriate.
 
Yea, how do we plug this thing in?

Intel Mobile chips fold very well, this is a Celeron but... I've got 2x 256 RAM sticks I'm not using.
 
There's only 34 left, get 'em while they're hot...

They do indeed look pretty good. You'd need something nonconducting to set them on, though...
 
The biggest thing I'm worried about is the power. It's a shame they don't have better pics so you could look for a DC input. I'm thinking you'd have to buy a laptop power brick and hotwire it in to the board which will probably cost more than the mobo+RAM.

 
Crashsector said:
The biggest thing I'm worried about is the power. It's a shame they don't have better pics so you could look for a DC input. I'm thinking you'd have to buy a laptop power brick and hotwire it in to the board which will probably cost more than the mobo+RAM.

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Go back to the HTPC thread...
A guy has found the PSU for it.
 
I like the idea, but I think the total is ~$100.00 for a setup.

MB/CPU- 30.00
RAM- ~30.00
PSU- ~30.00
~shipping

$100.00 for a 1.3 Celeron Mobile? No clue if the bios/LAN in these would netboot. Add a cheap USB pen drive? Not sure if the bios would allow booting from this either.

Do these CPU's need special motherboards? Just buy the board and pul the CPU (if it's socketed?). Then OC the heck out of it.
 
rodsfree said:
Go back to the HTPC thread...
A guy has found the PSU for it.
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that psu looks like a simple power brick. There might be more power regulation needed.
What voltage do these things need anyway? 12v? 5v? it would be nice if you could just run a stack of these off of a normal PSU.

 
neisius said:
that psu looks like a simple power brick. There might be more power regulation needed.
What voltage do these things need anyway? 12v? 5v? it would be nice if you could just run a stack of these off of a normal PSU.

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It's 19v or something like that. Check the PSU link, it matches the MB specs link.
 
marty9876 said:
It's 19v or something like that. Check the PSU link, it matches the MB specs link.
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so the motherboard runs off 19v? Seems like that 19v would passthrough more regulation in a laptop(batts, etc).
"AC adapter: 19 VDC"
"Battery type: 11.1 V"
I think there is more too it then just pluging the AC adapter into the motherboard.

 
there's usually a "power supply" of some sort in a laptop that gets the correct voltages where they are supposed to go.

what we'd really need to do is have someone buy a laptop based on that motherboard/chip, then rip it apart and let us know what power is like in there.

anyone up for that?
 
neisius said:
so the motherboard runs off 19v? Seems like that 19v would passthrough more regulation in a laptop(batts, etc).
"AC adapter: 19 VDC"
"Battery type: 11.1 V"
I think there is more too it then just pluging the AC adapter into the motherboard.

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ya thats pretty much it, most of these notebooks take in 19~22v and then have their own internal psu's... the last board had better pics and you could see the little cluster of mosfets around the power plug

i ordered one, probably going to use it for the car tho
 
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It's ~$68 +$6shipping +tax for 1.3 GHz Notebook Motherboard, Automobile Power Adaptor, and 256MB DDR PC3200 SODIMM.

Thinking it could run off the 12v line of a desktop PSU with the cheap car power adapter. Only problems are if the power and boot off lan would work.

 
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