>> This one still has a fan. Is there anything decent *and* fanless out >> there? > > unless you think via is fast enough, you'll have to wait for > pine trail. ich7r just requires too much power to go fanless.
It does seem bizarre that the atom-330 is rated at 8 watts and is passively cooled, but the chipset is over 20 watts and needs a fan. On my jetway board, I replaced the noisy chipset fan with a scythe mini-kaze which is much quieter. I'm going to see if I can go one step further with a Zalman passive heatsink. Another thought: since I'm not using the onboard graphics (I have a pci vga card so I can use both CPUs), can I shut down the graphics part of the ich7 to draw less power? Or is only the bios able to do that?
