Hi All,

I've been trying to spec an Atom system and having a bit of trouble.

I'd like a mini ITX system but it would have to have a minimum of... 2 network ports and one wifi adapter.

The rest is not too important but something like 1 or 2GBs of RAM and the HDD is not important at all. Maybe even a compact flash plugged into one of the sata sockets.

Anyway, the only bits that are important are the network capabilities.

If anyone could provide a link to the minimum requirements I'll then be able to add to it but I'm having difficulty finding the basics.

Thanks for any help

Oliver

Nvidia ION or whatever it's called? As ever, I should point out that I know next to nothing here, but this was interesting:

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2 ... mini-itx/1

I'm assuming that short of spending a small fortune up front/inevitably you wind up buying a few PCI cards for these sort of systems?

I've been looking at boards like that but they seem to all have either one port and one pci or no pci like this one.

So far I've found this sort of set up and I'm thinking of poss making it more than just a router and having it as a file server or something also with streaming media etc...

ZOTAC mobo saocket 1156 (core i3) with gigabit ethernet and N wifi
Core i3 2.9GHz dual core (could also go for Pentium Dual-core.
Gigabit NIC
My ideal case but it has no room for a PCI card (any ideas what else I could go with?)

I was thinking of sticking the OS on a CF card and booting from that and then stick in an SSD for storage or something. This would go VERY nicely with my (imagined) set up for when I get my flat.

Or poss even stick the OS on a small SSD (64GB).

It may be quite expensive but I think it would do perfectly for streaming and serving files which would be brilliant. Especially with the HDMI output for a HD TV.

Nice, and I know it's the way of these things, but it's a bit mad that the case price isn't that far away from the cpu or board's

One thing I've always wondered about CF cards - what effect does continual OS activity have on them, if anything?

Not too sure, I'll have to Google it though.

Just seen this... SATA - CF adapter

Which may come in handy if that's what I decide to do.

Something I've just thought of, weren't you talking about getting a PS3 before? It streams, stores and displays content (AVI, MP4 etc among them), plays BRs, and has a built-in browser that you can use a 'Tooth/Wireless keyboard and mouse with. It's also got iPlayer and Facebook functions in the firmware, if that matters...

I appreciate it's probably not ideal, but something to think about

have you looked at the shuttle barebones systems ? ...