On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Bentley, Dain wrote:

> I second that. I run an atom 330 with two gigs of RAM and two 500gig drives
in
> a raid for development server at home is a 1u case. It performs great and
its
> low power

My router runs an Atom Mini-ITX board.  Nothing heavy duty, but it's a
dual-core Atom (N550, dual-core 64-bit with Hyperthreading, so OpenBSD sees it
as 4 cores).  Jetway also has a really neat "daughterboard" system which is
basically a small 66 MHz PCI risier card; my router runs on the 3 Intel NIC
daughtercard they have (leaving an extra 2 Realtek ports).

It also has a Mini-PCIe slot, which I fitted with a wireless card (currently
the Centrino Advanced-N 6230, which doesn't work with OpenBSD and I don't have
time to work on the driver ATM).  If you're running a server, you could fit
whatever you wanted in there that goes in a Mini-PCIe slot (crypto card,
etc).

My particular board is the NC9C-550, which I've been happy with (though the
BIOS is really badly done; you have to turn off the energy saving feature in
the BIOS to make it turn on at AC power restoration, which is just stupid).
I've been otherwise quite happy with it.

- Dave

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