Centrino desktop
Bookmark this page:
 Yahoo!
 Google
 Windows Live
 del.icio.us
 digg
 Netscape
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by John Smith on August 12, 2005, 2:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options I'd like to build myself a quiet Intel-based PC. Is it possible to build a desktop machine with mobile laptop chipsets and CPU? A Centrino desktop I guess? I mean, for the purposes of making a quiet PC, wouldn't it make more sense to put a cool mobile CPU in it rather than a big hot desktop CPU? What do you reckon? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by MCheu on August 12, 2005, 6:17 pm
Please log in for more thread options It's theoretically possible to design and manufacture an ATX motherboard using the mobile chipsets, but I know of nobody that does. That makes it somewhat difficult. Unless you're willing to start up a factory yourself, or rip apart a laptop to get the guts, it's not something someone can do at home with a screwdriver. A few motherboards claim to support the PentiumM (the CPU component of centrino), so you can probably use the CPU. The other major biggie of centrino is wireless 802.11B or G capability built into the motherboard, but you can easily add that capability with a PCI wireless network card. I'm not familiar enough of the full capabilities of Centrino but I'm fairly confident that you could probably duplicate all those capabilities. --------------------------------------------- MCheu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by General Schvantzkoph on August 12, 2005, 7:47 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:11:02 +0100, John Smith wrote:
> Hi
> > I'd like to build myself a quiet Intel-based PC. Is it possible to build > a desktop machine with mobile laptop chipsets and CPU? A Centrino > desktop I guess? I mean, for the purposes of making a quiet PC, wouldn't > it make more sense to put a cool mobile CPU in it rather than a big hot > desktop CPU? > > What do you reckon? You don't need to use a Centrino to get a quiet system, Athlon 64s run cool enough so that the CPU fan is almost never on. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by Maxx Taxx on August 12, 2005, 8:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options There is an article on building this in Toms Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20050621/index.html However I think you should only consider this option it if you want to minimize the energy consumption. You have to give up on other things pci-express etc so I think you should go for an ordinary AMD instead and have more options. > Hi
> > I'd like to build myself a quiet Intel-based PC. Is it possible to build a > desktop machine with mobile laptop chipsets and CPU? A Centrino desktop I > guess? I mean, for the purposes of making a quiet PC, wouldn't it make > more sense to put a cool mobile CPU in it rather than a big hot desktop > CPU? > > What do you reckon? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Posted by Cuzman on August 12, 2005, 10:15 pm
Please log in for more thread options John Smith wrote:
" What do you reckon? " There are a few socket 479 desktop boards: AOpen i855GMEm-LFS http://tinyurl.com/avprl AOpen i915GMm-HFS http://tinyurl.com/bdc95 AOpen i915Ga-HFS http://tinyurl.com/c9z56 DFI 855GME-MGF http://tinyurl.com/ac5tq Asus make the CT-479, which is a 478-to-479 adapter for some of their motherboards. CT-479 product page http://tinyurl.com/ayrvv CT-479 review http://tinyurl.com/a7kev This review shows why the Pentium-M is becoming a very popular enthusiast desktop CPU. http://tinyurl.com/4m2qw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
>
>I'd like to build myself a quiet Intel-based PC. Is it possible to build
>a desktop machine with mobile laptop chipsets and CPU? A Centrino
>desktop I guess? I mean, for the purposes of making a quiet PC, wouldn't
>it make more sense to put a cool mobile CPU in it rather than a big hot
>desktop CPU?
>
>What do you reckon?