How to choose right snail?
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I am mining from my living room with GPU in my computer (mining FTC :) while writing this post).
But I want to get rid of the continuous noise, especially because of my little daughter and wife (want calm living room).So we want to switch to some nettop (we call it snail) and set big PC free to my headless Linux mining experiments.
[b]And this is a good way to obtain a mining platform in general I think - just use cheap nettop and free the old hardware.[/b]
Also my wife like the idea of more space as big PC case will disappear and new snail will be mounted behind monitor.However I am still searching for right snail.
Do you guys have any experience?
Is Atom really bad idea? Do you like Intel NUC? Leonovo Q190? Zotac?
Any help or personal experience will be very welcome! -
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I’d avoid the lenovo Q190 as the one I pulled up says celeron, no thx.
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Actually cheapest NUC also use Celeron, I still believe any Celeron will outperform Atom easily.
What sucks about NUC is no speaker and mic jacks (=+usb sound card), no card reader (=+usb card reader) and biggest catch is no USB 3.0.
On all these will Zotac beat NUC. So far I have Zotac ZBOX AD06 Barebone +60GB SSD and 8GB ram as favorite:AMD Dual-Core E2-1800,
AMD Radeon HD7340
2x SO-DIMM DDR3 1333
2.5" SATA III
[b]2x USB 3.0[/b]
4x USB 2.0
[b]WiFi[/b]
[b]Bluetooth 4.0[/b]
GLAN, DVI, HDMI, VESA mounting kit, [b]card reader, remote control[/b]
[b]Analog MIC and SPEAKER output[/b]But still searching for more candidates…
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So after half year+ I finally made it! I bought Leonovo Q190 and replace my noisy, big and powersucking PC (which will be now dedicated to mining only in different room and place).
Positive
- save a lot of space by turning your monitor into fake all-in-one
- save lot of energy (17W vs. 100+W)
- reduce noise significantly
- even slowest Q190 have enough computing power for home PC (web, audio, video, word, nothing special…)
- your original big PC can now be dedicated to mining only :)
Negative
- No SSD, only 2GB memory
I have to go through Win7 installation (as my wife do not digest Mint or Xubuntu). As Q190 I ordered was without OS and without optical DVD mechanic I installed Win7 from USB flash drive. After trying lot of tutorials from internet this trivial step was waste of almost half day!
So this tutorial worked without problems for me:
[b]http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_to_install_windows_7_beta_a_usb_key[/b]
One last catch, it doesn’t matter if you have USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 flash drive, but you have to stick it into USB 2.0 port. Otherwise you will end up installation of Win7 very soon due CD/DVD missing drivers!