<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Hutchinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markhsa@gmail.com">markhsa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
What vid cards did you use in the atom frontends? I have had good luck with Nvidia 210 and those with an atom setup could be good.<br>How about remote turn on/off with a kb? Is that doable?<br></blockquote></div><br><br>
Just use Acer Aspire Revos. The on-board ION chipset video supports VDPAU so you don't need a separate card. Netboot them and you can just shut them down when not in use. I don't bother trying to do suspend/resume, I just use the power button mapped to do a shutdown. My two FE boxes are set up this way. Not Revos as they didn't exist when I built my system, but micro-ATX with onboard 8300 video cards to support VDPAU and lower power AMD chips. A fair bit more power hungry than the Revos would be. I'll likely move to something like that when I decide to refresh the systems, but they have a lot of life left in them. <br>