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RE: Nettop as an alternative

Hi Eunegis,
About 1,5 year ago i tried cmp on an acer Aspire One ZG5 (Atom N270 and 16GB SSD inside). This was the chain:
nettop - hiface (small clock batch / LifePo4-psu) - Benchmark DAC1 (modded tentlabs clock) - Hexateq class D amp - PMC OB1 speaker
It sounded surprisingly good, but not as good as my 'classical' cmp2 setup.
Problem is (amogst others) the fan inside the nettop. There are ways to stop the fan, but it runs too hot then. Don't know about the current available nettops.

In my current CMP-machine i run Win7 in a dualboot. Win7 has great drivers, i can imagine it sounds almost as good on a nettop/laptop as cmp2.
I ordered an Atom mini-itx board (asrock ad525pv3), just to try. This board has detailed bios, and cpu can run @900MHz. I will report the results.

I think newbies could try cmp (as a dualboot together with Win7), and then decide: go cmp2 the 'classical' way (best sq, spend loads of time on tweaking), or stick to Win7 on nettop or htpc (best convenience).

Douwe



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