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Paul Sutton wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Quoting Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >>>> The new Athlon X2 BE-2350 dual core CPU. It's a 45W energy efficient >>>> chip. I was reading a review of it earlier and on a motherboard with >>>> ATI/AMD 690 chipset (with onboard graphics) it only uses about 59W. >>>> >>> Sounds "cool" >>> >>> >>>> E-Buyer are doing the slightly slower BE-2300 chip for about £50 inc >>>> VAT. After reading the review I've decided I want one. The BE-2350 >>>> supposedly even overclocks to 3GHz per core although it didn't say what >>>> the consumption was on that. > What about on board graphics, are there low powered graphics chips too. > > Paul > Not sure if they're low powered, I think it was a WHOLE PC running at about 60W. Checked on the pricing today on the BE-2350, it's about £56 at eBuyer. I am very tempted to upgrade. Even though I would have to replace my motherboard and memory (I have a Socket 754 system) it wouldn't cost any more than about £120 for a dual core system with about 2 gigs of RAM. Anyone heard anything about AMD releasing the specs and stuff of the ATI video drivers to the Open Source community? Last I read they are working with FLOSS developers on creating an open driver. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html