Availability of 945GSE + Atom motherboard?

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After reading up on the very interesting thread started by oDii here, I'm on the lookout for an ultra low power board and the 945GSE seems to fit the bill. However, I can't find any on the market. Now I wonder if they won't be available in "desktop motherboard"? Obviously, Asus will be bringing out the new Eee PC with the GSE chipset, but I was looking to build a low power file server. I recently bought a Jetway J7K4F CN700 based motherboard and it's the most unstable thing I've ever had, crashing constantly :(

Therefore looking at using an Atom as an alternative. If the GSE chipset isn't yet available, I may go for the more power hungry GCLF, but if the former is about to come out, I'll wait a week or two.

Any thoughts?

Cheers :)
 
I've also been looking at the atom stuff a lot recently, and everything that I can find any info on thats coming out seems to be GC based. All I really want is dual onboard nics, but I've found nothing.
 
Intel is being a goat about it. They ain't allowing DVI/HDMI for Atom base motherboards.
 
I thought Intel wasn't letting anyone build a mobo with a GSE, instead making them use the regular GC.
 
lt_shiro said:
newegg has them in stock.
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Can you provide a link please ? Or just state the model number?

Vediovus said:
I've also been looking at the atom stuff a lot recently, and everything that I can find any info on thats coming out seems to be GC based. All I really want is dual onboard nics, but I've found nothing.
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I wanted decent onboard NIC performance as it's to be used as a small file server. With my Jetway which has dual onboard Realtek 8110 GbE NICs, I was getting just under 60MB/s throughput which was great, but 2 secodns later, it BSODs :(

CrimandEvil said:
I thought Intel wasn't letting anyone build a mobo with a GSE, instead making them use the regular GC.
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That's what it looks like at the moment.

Come on someone, prove us wrong :D

Edit: I can get the normal GC chipset. I live in the UK and linitx has the board in stock and it's half the price of anything else :) but of course with the not-that-efficient chipset ;)
 
Intel has been handing out the GSE chipset as well... its currently only available in atom-based laptops though. (Example: http://dealspl.us/Acer-AOA110-1295-...512MB-8GB-Linux-Notebook-Computer-White_97319)

I am also looking for this kind of thing for a ultra-low power systems. I've also been using the Jetway C7 systems, and I've found them pretty reliable (I've built 12 so far). However I don't expect to see a mini-itx version of anything with the GSE chipset out for a while, if ever. Intel has only released reference boards for the GC.
 
Hi Desdichado. Thanks for your answer.

I don't mind if the board doesn't fit into a mini-ITX case - my Jetway is currently in a normal server ATX case (looking very small indeed!).

Point taken about using the GSE chipset in notebooks. I think the new Asus Eee will also have the GSE chipset. But as you say, might be some time before Intel release the GSE for thirdparty board manufacturers to integrate...

Regarding my Jetway and its stability issues, I tried installing both Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 and both seem stable. I've now used the 2k3 install far longer than I did with XP and it's yet to fall over with a BSOD or otherwise. Maybe I just had a dodgy XP install?
 
Yes, the asus eee 901 and the MSI wind both use the gse chipset, I believe.

It is possible to get the atom and a low-wattage chipset on a motherboard, but so far I haven't seen anything worth using as a computers. All the ones I've seen are small sbcs like this one, which is not what you're looking for. http://www.ibase.com.tw/ib882.htm

Regarding the stability, I wouldn't hesitate to use the jetway board as a server, and its hard to get much lower powered. Mine with 2.5" hard drive uses about 20W idle, 25 under load. I haven't installed anything on them except XP home (gags) and vista. The via processors don't have the horsepower for vista, so that idea died pretty fast.
 
The 945GSE is being used on a few small SBCs as well.

http://www.ibase.com.tw/ib883.htm
http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LE-374.HTM
http://www.icpamerica.com/products/single_board_computers/3_5_biscuit/wafer_atom_n270.html

Interesting thing on the Commell board, the overall layout is based on their LS-371 board for Yonah/Merom CPUs which uses the 945GME. Even has the same wide-range power input. I'm just hoping it won't have the $400 price of the LS-371 as well, but seeing as the ICP board is ~$375 it seems likely.
 
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