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Rinzler is an exceptionally skilled warrior and is the elite combatant in all games in the Grid.
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New PC #42

Closed GarethG closed 12 years ago

GarethG commented 12 years ago

We need a new PC to go inside the tube. There are a couple of upcoming mini PC's that look interesting the Raspberry Pi for example or the fitPC. We want this PC to be doing some heavy processing like machine vision, Sonar, SLAM, the roboard just isn't cut our for doing all those things so we need a little power house, any ideas guys?

GarethG commented 12 years ago

Just been looking at the fit-PC3

http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc3-info/

What you get seems pretty good, but they aren't at a Release Candidate for the hardware yet so there may be bugs. Also the motherboard is quite big, it will just fit in the tube, but you would have to take it out of the casing, which apparently is a bit of a bad idea, it get very hot, which might be a bad idea for us.

http://www.fit-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=2525&sid=40d7d95f87837be15d7c39f6f2536e75

We could downgrade to the fit-PC2 which would definitely fit in the tube here's a review http://www.roytanck.com/2009/07/29/fit-pc2-review-the-worlds-smallest-desktop-pc/

Here's another board that looks interesting http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=36

GarethG commented 12 years ago

Could get this ssd to go with http://www.ebuyer.com/248352-kingston-8gb-2-5-sata-ii-s100-ssd-read-90mb-s-write-30mb-s-ss100s2-8g

GarethG commented 12 years ago

Looks like a Nano-ITX will just fit in at a push, Pico will easily fit in

I've emailed the mini-itx store about a pico itx http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=39

bloodypete commented 12 years ago

http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2/html/fitpc2-sb-datasheet.htm Though you may find that interesting as it shows the internals :)

GarethG commented 12 years ago

Ordered the fit-pc2i Ultra

bloodypete commented 12 years ago

That the 2GHz one?

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Ordered the fit-pc2i Ultra

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GarethG commented 12 years ago

No that particular Atom board is deprecated hardware and no longer sold.

Its the 1.6Ghz but with 2GB of RAM