VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard + case?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Henry Spencer wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Park wrote:
>> Thanks Paul.  I'm exploring building a thin-client using Via's mini-ITX.
>> As usual, commodity PC has changed the equation.  Network boot (PXE),
>> CDROM boot, and other ways of implementing thin-client made sense in the
>> past.  But, with USB key drive, you can now just boot from USB keydrive,
>> and away you go.  100% solid-state machine at that.
>
> Getting rid of the disk is the easy part -- that's been practical for some
> time now with CompactFlash cards and CF-IDE adapters.  The hard part of
> going 100% solid state is getting rid of the cooling fans.

Not so hard if you do not aim for high speed. Anything up to about 1GHz 
will work without a fan, with an oversized heatsink. Power supplies with 
variable fan speed will have an inaudible fan at low load.

Peter
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