There’s a pretty interesting article over at ExtremeTech.com detailing how they put together an Intel Atom-based PC. Why put one together to begin with? Well aside from saying “Why not?”, an Atom processor based system (with the right peripherals and components) would be a very power efficient system and a very inexpensive system too.

ExtremeTech chose the Intel D945GCLF motherboard (which comes with an Intel Atom processor) as the heart of their system. After building the system, they had this to say:

The D945GCLF is more suitable for vertical applications or experimentation, than for most users.

As expected, the system failed to deliver mind blowing performance, but it’s more than adequate for reading/writing email, browsing the web, or working with Office documents. Heck, forgo Windows altogether, and you can probably have a sweet Linux system too. Another thought.. turn an Atom based system into a Windows Home Server box.

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