MikroTik

hello all,
is there anyone using the nvidia Ion mini itx boards to the run RouterOS and what results are you getting?

regards

Louis
example:

Zotac
IONITX-C-U Atom 230
Manufacturer Part# IONITX-C-U
Product Type: Desktop Board
Form Factor: Mini ITX
Memory Technology: DDR2 SDRAM
Processor Technology: Hyper-Threading Technology

hello all,
is there anyone using the nvidia Ion mini itx boards to the run RouterOS and what results are you getting?

regards

Louis
example:

Zotac
IONITX-C-U Atom 230
Manufacturer Part# IONITX-C-U
Product Type: Desktop Board
Form Factor: Mini ITX
Memory Technology: DDR2 SDRAM
Processor Technology: Hyper-Threading Technology

I guess will be a waste of h/w, there were testing with atom330 dual core, and seem work pretty

does it mean that for the purposes of lets say a SOHO router, or hotspot manager, that the Nvidia Ion Motherboard atom230 is underpowered?

regards

lm

I tried it with a zotac ion atom 230 system, 2gb ram. It's theoretically plenty powerful. It ended up running opensuse as my home workstation instead with it's nice built in nvidia graphics and DVI out and a little more RAM. This was about 30-50 days ago. I put a ocz ssd in it for workstation use.

With RouterOS, I could not get the current version of netinstall at the time to be able to install routerOS on a USB stick. I tried the 4.5b-something version and it wouldn't properly install 3.30 or 4.5. I was hoping for something efficient where I could just move the USB stick to another computer for testing. It would apparently install, but not boot, unless it was a bad install? I was using an Aspire-1 netbook with XP to do the netinstall.

I ended up putting in this with a small inexpensive hard drive instead:
Amd am3/am2+ motherboard with nvidia chipset
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103681
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817151085

It was similar money to the Atom system, but several times faster. It uses 50w of electricity idling and 70w under load, which I consider reasonable. A little more electricity than the Atom, but the company is paying for it where it's installed.

why you need an atom 230 to be a router?
just buy a second hand P3 800mhz PC cost you less than 40usd ,and you should run ros with it prefectly

because a second hand p3 probably has a fan and psu thats ready to fail, and takes more electricity than an atom.

atom also need a fan for the chipset
and atom with 1 hdd about 40w
p3 800mhz with 1 hdd about 60w ,not too much

Saving 30 watts saves me $40/yr for electricity, and probably $20/yr for airconditioning electricity. All my electric bills add up to about $2k/month, so I conserve electricity whenever possible.

At remote sites, I tend to use RBs as they are more power efficient than normal PC hardware.

Newer PCs tend to be pretty reliable and easy to find parts for too. Good luck finding matching PC100 sdram for a pIII router if you ever want to upgrade or anything. In a year or two, you won't be able to even move a working IDE hard drive into new PC hardware.

atom also need a fan for the chipset
and atom with 1 hdd about 40w
p3 800mhz with 1 hdd about 60w ,not too much

p3 - 30W
atom 330 - 35W

according to the wiki
the atom family is much lower consumption than the pentium family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CP ... issipation
Pentium III 800 Coppermine (180 nm) 800 MHz 27.2 W or 26.4 W 34 (27.2 W), 33 (26.4 W)
Pentium III 800EB Coppermine (180 nm) 800 MHz 29.05 W, 27.2 W or 26.4 W 36.31 (29.05 W), 34 (27.2 W), 33 (26.4 W)

Atom 230 Diamondville (45 nm) 1.6 GHz 4 W 2.50
Atom 330 Diamondville (45 nm) 1.6 GHz 8 W 5.00 [2.50 Per Core]

regards

lm

problem is with chipset that east so much power, that lower power AMD with AMD chipset is less W than Atom with intel chipset. Just my 2 cents.