[K12OSN] VT-310 DP as small workgroup server

[William Fragakis]

the C3s aren't known to be robust processors. iirc, they benchmarked
equivalent to about the same as about 50% slower PIIIs.

You may wish to look also at LAN-party style cases (e.g. Shuttle).
Small, good air circulation and you can stick in a dual core P4 or AMD
chip. Also, most mini-itx cases don't have great air flow - stick two
processors and a drive in there and either you have heat problems or you
need more air movement/fans which ups the noise level.

For modest use, I'm sure the mini-itxs would be nice but I would be
reluctant to put a few users browsing Flash web sites.

The LAN party cases often are of aluminum and have handles, we built one
as a test and it's serving about 12 desktops without issue - It has an
AMD 3500 and a 10K SATA drive - Kids love its looks.

Regards,
William



On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:47:19 -0500
> From: Daniel Loomis <drloomis at cox-internet.com>
> Subject: [K12OSN] VT-310 DP as small workgroup server
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> Has anyone tried setting up one of the new Via VT-310DP dual cpu 
> mini-itx motherboards as a small, low-power, quiet server for a
> portable 
> workgroup?  While its dual 1000mHz C3 processors could not compete
> with 
> a dual Xeon or Opteron server, it could be installed in a small case
> and 
> used to support basic office functions for a group of four or five. 
> With addition of a four-port pci NIC, it would not even need a 
> switch--just bridge the four ethernet ports into one br0, add clients 
> and you are good to go.
> 
> It would make a dandy demo system to take on the road, all in a
> package 
> the size of a thin client.
> 
> Dan