{"id":212,"date":"2009-07-20T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biatch0.net\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-07-20T02:51:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T18:51:39","slug":"atom-330e5200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/2009\/07\/20\/atom-330e5200\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom 330\/E5200?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently (attempting) to decide between an Atom 330 based solution vs an E5200 based solution.<\/p>\n<p>This machine is (ideally) meant for the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BitTorrent client<\/li>\n<li>PS3 DLNA Media Server (with hopefully sufficient CPU power for transcoding)<\/li>\n<li>not making whirring sounds when it&#8217;s on<\/li>\n<li>not increasing ambient room temp by 5\u00b0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information gathered so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Atom330 is a fair bit more energy efficient at idle (or close)<\/li>\n<li>the E5200 has a fair bit more CPU power (which tends to lead to it completing tasks faster and therefore returning to idle faster compared to the Atom330)<\/li>\n<li>at peak CPU usage, the E5200 consumes (approx) 25%-30% more power than the Atom330<\/li>\n<li>it is <strong>very<\/strong> unlikely that the E5200 will be able to run with passive cooling (ala the Atom330)<\/li>\n<li>in an Atom330 based solution it is likely that either the PSU or the HDD will be the main source of noise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just to clarify; all the above are in the scenario of a typical mini ITX casing (especially point regarding passive cooling). Given a large ATX case with sufficient airflow, passive cooling is definitely an option for the E5200 (and even higher)&#8230; however, in the case of a miniature, packed, and crowded ITX casing&#8230; unlikely&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Decision so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m fucked and can&#8217;t decide<\/li>\n<li>I may end up getting both and putting up findings here to help other poor people stuck in the same position as me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For some strange reason, most of the Atom330 reviews I can find online seem to compare it to (retardedly) powerful processors and not the low-end budget CPUs. It&#8217;s like I was writing a review on fuel\/petrol efficiency, decided to compare a Daihatsu Mira to a Ferrari Enzo&#8230; and somehow managed to find the majority of my article slamming the Mira for not reaching 200km\/h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently (attempting) to decide between an Atom 330 based solution vs an E5200 based solution. This machine is (ideally) meant for the following: BitTorrent client PS3 DLNA Media Server (with hopefully sufficient CPU power for transcoding) not making whirring sounds when it&#8217;s on not increasing ambient room temp by 5\u00b0 Information gathered so far: the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30,70,106,111,139],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atom","tag-atom330","tag-e5200","tag-intel","tag-itx","tag-micro-itx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biatch0.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}