Low powered setup

[Dave_EGDR]

Derek, got second hand EB1007 running Win7 Home Pro (64bit installed), 2Gb RAM and D410 1.67Ghz Atom processor for £100

I've installed Basestation, Planeplotter, Active Display and MilModeS data utility.

It runs, but with all three main programs running its not fast, ram is always constant around 55-60% usage and CPU load is 80-100%.  I've moved Active Display off the EeeBox and running it when required now on another PC and just linking it to Basestation folder.  (CPU now 70-80% load)

So I'm guessing your EeeBox will be flying compared to this one, but it works and does what I needed it to do, just!  As this is all the box will be used for, should be okay for now.

Dave

[kered]

As non of the programs you use are 64bit You might find it runs better on a 32 bit OS as a 64bit system needs to run an emulater to run 32 bit programs, this uses up resources. Also the procesors in these boxes are 32 bit
You could make a hard drive image, install the 32bit and see if there is any difference in performance, if not its only minutes to go back again once you have the HD image. Best done now while its a fresh install(its also handy as a backup for future) as it won't get any faster but maybe slower over time.

Derek

[Dave_EGDR]

As non of the programs you use are 64bit You might find it runs better on a 32 bit OS as a 64bit system needs to run an emulater to run 32 bit programs, this uses up resources. Also the procesors in these boxes are 32 bit
You could make a hard drive image, install the 32bit and see if there is any difference in performance, if not its only minutes to go back again once you have the HD image. Best done now while its a fresh install(its also handy as a backup for future) as it won't get any faster but maybe slower over time.

Derek

Thanks for info Derek, will look into this over next couple of days.

Cheers
Dave

[DRL]

I am using an Acer netbook with stock hardware although I made it Win7 OS from the stock XP.

It runs on an Intel Atom N270 processor of 1.6 GHz and a data bus speed of 533 MHz. Besides that, it also incorporates a Mobile Intel 945 GSE Express chipset. In terms of cache memory, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 incorporates L2 cache of 512 KB. As for its RAM, it incorporates a DDR2 technology SDRAM with a data bus speed of 533 MHz and an installed size of 1 GB.

It is dedicated 24/7 using rtl1090/dongle. It uses VR \ PP and feeds several upload sites and LAN based PC's.

It seems to cope really well and has run stable since I rolled it out-no issues.

[IanH]

Active Display is a bit too heavy on resources to run comfortably with BaseStation and Planeplotter. SBSPopulate was a lot less CPU intensive.

You might want to reduce some of the display options on BaseStation as well. One way to make a big reduction for BS is to reduce the range displayed.

Look at the CPU usage in TaskManager to see what effect each program has with option turned on/off.

[Dave_EGDR]

All three work fine together, including some other utilities running 24/7 also.  As the system is not being used for anything else then its working, although just because I do not need Active Display running 24/7, I've move that onto another PC and I can now run it as required connecting over network to Basestation folder.

System will be good for sometime, then when I fine free time I may drop it down to 32bit from 64 to see if any difference, but in no rush as it would still be doing same job as it is now.

Thanks for all input hope other get something out of this also.

[AlfredPage]

Interested to hear from anyone running BaseStation, AD & plane plotter on something like Intel Atom Dual-Core D525 Processor(1.8GHz, 1MB L2 Cache)

Looking for a low powered unit I can run 24/7 rather than my full blown peimar solar thats heating the room up and burning too much energy.

Any recommendations on low powered units would be great.

Thanks
Dave

Hello friend were you able to get the right low powered setup? Even I have been searching for similar set up so can you provide some information.

[Anmer]

Hello friend were you able to get the right low powered setup? Even I have been searching for similar set up so can you provide some information.

What do you want to use it for?  What GUI software do you want to use?

[MIXISM]

New way to power your SBS-3 on the road at full power.

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