Epia M6000 mini-itx for sage client

[mrseidler]

Is anyone using this board for their client? I'm currently using the M10000 w/ 512 ram but want to go fanless on a second client. Right now my M10000 uses between 70-80% cpu when playing a recording or watching live tv using elecard & overlay w/o double refresh or deinterlacing. Any thoughts or suggestions?

[deltaforce]

I don't see where there could be an issue.

[IKK]

I would think that’s ok as long as you don't plan on connecting anything else like a full size DVD player or many other internal parifarals. I am currently using a M1000 as my main machine. I will be moving it as a client soon. What I did is I purchased 2 Zalmen Fan Mates, A 70watt fan less power supply(look for it at www.miniitx.com), and a new stealth fan 60mm( I think). I added the Stealth Fan where the old power supply attached, connected it to a fan mate to lower the rpms. and attached a fan mate to the ITX cpu fan. No noise coming out of any of these fans. The power supply gives off no heat and has no fan so it is quite. I recently required a laptop DVD player which uses low power and I plan to integrate it into my system. The only issue I have now is my hard drive is very loud when recoding and I plan to change that soon. For some reason the 120gig Western Digital are not good PVR drives. I am going to try a 40gig maxtor I have for the bedroom and use the 120 in the living room hope I can deal with the writing to the hard drive noise there.

You may also want to check out http://www.blackviper.com/. You gives you a discription of all the things that uses the CPU when you start up( the things you see when you press CTR+ALT+DEL in the processes tab.) You can probobly remove alot of that stuff and bring down your CPU usage.

[mrseidler]

Thanks, Thats some helpful info. I wasn't sure if the cpu usage would get overwhelming if i stepped down to the M6000. I like the idea of the fan mate for the cpu fan, its actually the loudest part of my machine right now.