<p>Are these fanless?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 23, 2012 12:39 PM, "Matt Garman" <<a href="mailto:matthew.garman@gmail.com">matthew.garman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:13 AM, William Powers <<a href="mailto:wepprop@gmail.com">wepprop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Of course, opinions will vary but if I were putting together a new frontend<br>
> today, I would put a G620T with the OEM HSF on a mini-ITX board and use<br>
> OpenGL playback with the integrated Intel graphics<br>
<br>
I second this. I'm running an i3-2100 on a mini-itx motherboard in a<br>
small case. Power consumption is less than 20 watts at idle, and so<br>
far, I haven't had any playback issues.<br>
<br>
> The only trick is that I had to remove all trace of the nvidia driver and I<br>
> had to patch and recompile the Mesa rpm's from instructions I found on this<br>
> list. Hopefully the distros will pick up the upstream patch very soon and<br>
> make the latter unnecessary. The advantage to using OpenGL on Intel graphics<br>
> is I don't need a discrete NVidia GPU that adds 10 or 15 watts at idle.<br>
> With a pico-PSU it should idle under 20 watts and use an extra 5 to 10<br>
> watts during HD playback. Plus you don't have to deal with NVidia<br>
> proprietary drivers.<br>
<br>
I probably should have mentioned this sooner, but if you're using<br>
CentOS: the maintainer of the elrepo mesa package has incorporated<br>
said patch.<br>
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