[PD] [OT] mini-ITX again

Derek Holzer derek at umatic.nl
Wed Feb 27 17:33:00 CET 2008


Thanks again David, I knew you were a goldmine of info on this! Will 
report back when I make the move.

best,
d.

David Merrill wrote:
> Hi Derek -
> The fan is pretty quiet, so I wouldn't worry about fan noise in your 
> equation.. With respect to which EPIA board - I have been happy with the 
> performance of all of the ones I've used, but I wasn't doing 
> particularly compute-heavy operations most of the time. For instance, I 
> have a voice recorder/sampler/looper application that serves 4 people at 
> the same time from a single EPIA board, and has no trouble (on either 
> the 1.5Ghz board, the 1.2, or a 1.0) - but when I tried to run two 
> instances of PD that were each doing multiple partitioned convolutions 
> (I think 8 partconv~ objects in each patch) it started to have trouble 
> on the 1.0 board. In general, linux and PD run well on the VIA boards. 
> If you want to do any graphics though, you will absolutely need to 
> install the VIA-specific graphics drivers, otherwise it runs really 
> clunky. Actually, for whatever you're doing, using the VIA drivers is 
> probably a good idea, to get the maximum HW utilization.
> -David
> 
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
> 
>> @ David:
>>
>> a Delta is approx EUR 160, not too much more than 4 iMics over here.
>>
>> Would you recommend the EPIA EN 15000G C7 over the EPIA MII 12000G 
>> 1.2Ghz? Or maybe the EPIA EN 12000G Fanless C7 if I want to go fanless 
>> with the same CPU speed? How loud is the fan on the EN board you used in 
>> the Audiopint? And most important, how much PD can you squeeze out of it?
>>
>> @ Olme:
>>
>> thanks for the suggestion, but 500 MHz is waaaaaayyyyyyy too slow ;-)
>>
>> thx + best!
>> d.
>>
>>
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