Quiet nettop that could survive in a kitchen cabinet?

[btrcp2000]

Would a nettop like the Asrock 330 or something along those lines be able to survive inside a kitchen cabinet that occasionally gets opened?

Fans on the cabinet are not an option for reasons of marital harmony. For the same reason the pc must be hidden, and there's nowehere else to put it but the cabinet.

[paulbeers]

I would think that a nettop could handle being in a cabinet. What are you giong to use it for?

[btrcp2000]

Sage client and internet surfing. SO now the next question is can it handle video files from an HDPVR or r5000? I probably can only answer that by trial and error though, too many variables from user to user, but I welcome any thoughts.

Also possibly used to blu-ray ripping, but not viewing directly on the nettop itself

[jerryt]

Just mounted an Aspire One AOA150 behind a TV. It has Broadcom video decoder card which plays HDPVR files in WMP perfecly, but HDPVR video's stutters some in Sage.

Very quiet, and internet is fast.

[btrcp2000]

Is the aspire wireless? And it is not ION, correct?

[jerryt]

Normally wireless, but I used the WiFi mini PCIe slot for the Broadcom video decoder card.

Not ion.

[paulbeers]

I would recommend going ION if for no other reason than to simply to keep your internal wifi card. Granted you could go with a USB wifi adapter, but that is more "stuff" hanging off a box that is probably already going to be a bit of a nuisance taking up room in a cabinet in the kitchen (at least I can tell you my wife would be annoyed by it). Further, you know that you have a fully Sage compatible decoders (as opposed to the broadcom one which apparently is not compatible with Sage at this point).

[KarylFStein]

The ION should also help with flash stuff when the latest Adobe player with HW accelleration gets fully released, (maybe it already has?) Flash is important for my home's kitchen PC because the people like to pop on there for a quick casual game every once in a while, or to view cooking/YouTube videos. It works now, but barely and the fan kicks in on high-speed which is annoying. It's low-priority to replace, but I've been pretty tempted to get an ION-based machine once I heard about how well the new flash player is supposed to work on it.

[wayner]

I haven't bought one yet but I would think that an Asus Eee Top touchscreen PC would be very good in such an application.

[evilpenguin]

Newegg's Tuesday (4/20) A.M. Shell Shocker deal is a Foxconn ION Nettop. Pretty ugly, but who cares if its going into a cabinet

[paulbeers]

If I didn't just buy a Mac Mini Server and pay my taxes, I would probably pick one of those up tomorrow. Ho Hum. It would probably just be something I would be bored with quickly (like my netbook)

[jerryt]

Played with a Zotac IonITX-F-E Atom 330 computer yesterday. Shows up as a quad core in the device manager. With a Nvidia M9300 video processor it did both Mpeg2 and H.264 perefectly with like 13% CPU.

Very impressed.