Centrino desktop

[John Smith]

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?

 

[Maxx Taxx]

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.

 

[Cuzman]

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

 

[MCheu]

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?

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.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

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.

 

[CBFalconer]

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

Just a point of order - I will virtually never use a tinyurl,
because I have no idea where the result will take me. In addition,
those urls will become invalid, while the posting will remain
available in the google archive, thus frustrating people who really
want to follow the links. So I suggest you avoid them, or post
both the real URL and the tinyURL together.

 

[Cuzman]

CBFalconer wrote:

" Just a point of order - I will virtually never use a tinyurl, because
I have no idea where the result will take me. In addition, those urls
will become invalid, while the posting will remain available in the
google archive, thus frustrating people who really want to follow the
links. So I suggest you avoid them, or post both the real URL and the
tinyURL together. "


But then, by the time TinyURL delete the link, the motherboard
manufacturers will probably have changed the links on their websites
anyway. Posting full length links often wraps them with the most common
newsreaders too. Also, it's not particularly likely that anyone gives
detailed and specific advice on a technical subject, just so they can
post a link to something malicious.

 

[kony]

CBFalconer wrote:

" Just a point of order - I will virtually never use a tinyurl, because
I have no idea where the result will take me. In addition, those urls
will become invalid, while the posting will remain available in the
google archive, thus frustrating people who really want to follow the
links. So I suggest you avoid them, or post both the real URL and the
tinyURL together. "


But then, by the time TinyURL delete the link, the motherboard
manufacturers will probably have changed the links on their websites
anyway. Posting full length links often wraps them with the most common
newsreaders too. Also, it's not particularly likely that anyone gives
detailed and specific advice on a technical subject, just so they can
post a link to something malicious.

If someone choses to use a newsreader that can't follow a
standard URL, isn't it their problem by choice?

Motherboard and other website links do often outlast the
tinyurl, plus some people hide referral/affiliate
information in the tinyurl... many do not like this kind of
biased linking... not suggesting you did it but it does
happen.