Am 14.01.2013 um 18:47 schrieb SilverTip257: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Matt Garman <matthew.garman at gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for >> use >>> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. >>> >>> 1) Low power consumption (10-15W ... maybe 30W at most) >>> 2) Must run Linux without too much fuss (CentOS or otherwise) >>> 3) Must have two NICs (fast ethernet or better) >>> 4) Memory - 1GB or better >>> 5) Can be configurable either via serial or VGA. >>> 6) Accepts a normal hard drive, not CF -- drive capacity is my concern. >>> 7) spare PCI slot is a _plus_ (extra NICs or whatever else) >>> 8) I'd like to keep the physical footprint to a minimum (size of a 1U >>> switch or so?) >> >> The lowest-power x86 device I've used is an Alix 2d2 from PCEngines. >> Power consumption was about five watts, regardless of load. This has >> three 100 mbps NICs, a 32-bit x86 AMD Geode CPU, and 256 MB RAM >> soldered to the board. Has a built-in Compact Flash slot to use as a >> "hard drive". I ran OpenBSD on mine for years as a >> firewall/gateway/router for a home LAN (don't see why it wouldn't run >> CentOS). (I'm actually selling mine, email off list if interested.) >> > > The Geode CPUs do not support PAE [0]. While CentOS 5.x would work, 6.x > requires a kernel recompile (not complaining, but noting). > > [0] http://joseph.freivald.com/linux/2010/04/22/alix-centos-image/ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 10 model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 498.048 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 996.09 -- LF