When my server board bit the dust thanks to a shorting out cheapo USB hub, I couldn't really wait for a replacement to ship, so I grabbed an ASUS AT3IONT-I Deluxe motherboard to hold me over as a short term fix until I could get my main board RMA'd.
This little guy is impressive. Built in Bluetooth, WiFi, ION / NVIDIA Graphics and VDPAU (which all work Out-Of-Box on OpenSuSE 11.3 - WOW!) make this thing flawless for media playback, and the Atom 330 Dual Core / Hyperthreaded CPU solution made it pretty much a drop-in temporary solution. Dropping down from an 8 core dual 1366 Xeon to a low power solution has never been so painless.
As you might notice in the bottom of this picture, the ATX power connector is replaced with a bunch of solder points, so the PSU is a brick that sits outside the case. This is a curious design decision in my opinion, because the PCI Express x16 slot will almost certainly demand more than 90w of power for any modern mid-end graphics card.
I'm wondering if there is a supplemental power solution that will fit in the case I'm working with (SilverStone SG05) and power something like a GTX460 / GTX470. The case provides space for an "SFX" Form factor power supply, which I can use (and short some special pinouts on the ATX connector) to get going, any thoughts or recommendations on this?
This little guy is impressive. Built in Bluetooth, WiFi, ION / NVIDIA Graphics and VDPAU (which all work Out-Of-Box on OpenSuSE 11.3 - WOW!) make this thing flawless for media playback, and the Atom 330 Dual Core / Hyperthreaded CPU solution made it pretty much a drop-in temporary solution. Dropping down from an 8 core dual 1366 Xeon to a low power solution has never been so painless.
As you might notice in the bottom of this picture, the ATX power connector is replaced with a bunch of solder points, so the PSU is a brick that sits outside the case. This is a curious design decision in my opinion, because the PCI Express x16 slot will almost certainly demand more than 90w of power for any modern mid-end graphics card.
I'm wondering if there is a supplemental power solution that will fit in the case I'm working with (SilverStone SG05) and power something like a GTX460 / GTX470. The case provides space for an "SFX" Form factor power supply, which I can use (and short some special pinouts on the ATX connector) to get going, any thoughts or recommendations on this?
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