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12-02-2007, 02:24 PM
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| New Intel Little Valley build I have been on the small PC crusade for a while now. This interest has been fueled by the basic idea, how much PC does one really need to do everyday tasks. How big, fast and loud does it really need to be? Building special purpose systems can be very gratifying. If you are undertaking this kind of project you probably have experience building standard systems and have a fair amount of unused components lying around. Since this kind of system rarely needs the horsepower of gaming rigs, putting together a small system can be quite inexpensive. With Intel's new "Little Valley" D201GLY2 motherboard priced at about 70$, this baby is about half the price of VIA Mini-Itx solutions but with double the performance in most cases. Equipped with a single core Celeron conroe L 220 cpu @ 1.2 ghz, this version draws less power than the previous D201GLY model and is passively cooled. This taken from the Intel site: "The Intel® Desktop Board D201GLY2 is an innovative solution for the sub-value market segment. With an Intel® Celeron® processor and graphics integrated on the board, this board enables easy system integration and helps you to achieve a lower system cost. This board has 10/100 LAN, support up to six Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports and 2 SATA (1.5 GB/s), providing both connectivity and ease of use for your computing needs such as email and Internet access, instant messaging and Voice Over IP" Read more here ... Intel® Desktop Board D201GLY2 Overview Here is a recent review on this board here ... Intel D201GLY2 Mini-ITX mainboard | silentpcreview.com The only mod I did to my board is swap out the 1" sq stock northbridge heatsink for a 2" sq model from my junk box. I found the stock one to run too hot when I touched it during memtest. Now that I replaced it, I can keep my finger on it no problem. I also decided to add fan to blow into the cpu heatsink and over the northbridge heatsink for good measure. BTW this motherboard measures only 6.75" x 6.75". Motherboard: Intel D201GLY2 RAM: 1GB Crucial Rendition PC2-5300 DDR2-667 Graphics Card: SIS integrated Hard Drive: 100GB Fujitsu SATA notebook Power supply: PICO-120 & 110w brick DVD drive: Asus DVD-rom Here are some pics ...
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12-03-2007, 03:09 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Looks good..  |
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12-03-2007, 08:17 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build What was your total cost? |
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12-03-2007, 08:32 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Prices don't include shipping ... 67$ Motherboard: Intel D201GLY2 with Celeron 220 & graphics 20$ RAM: 1GB Crucial Rendition PC2-5300 DDR2-667 75$ Hard Drive: 100GB Fujitsu SATA notebook 90$ Power supply: PICO-120 & 110w brick 20$ Masonite and screws The fan, DVD-Rom and other items came from my junk box.
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12-07-2007, 03:21 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Very cool. What do you use it for?
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12-07-2007, 05:05 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build You can do a lot of things with that, make a nice pc for a car or something. |
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12-07-2007, 07:31 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build My 1st plan was to use it as a mobile system by sticking a wireless pci card and build it into the back of a monitor like I did for the kitchen pc. ABXZone.com - A Custom PC for the Kitchen While I was looking at what linux distro to try my first monthly bill from my new ISP contract came in  I used double to amount of bandwidth and was charged for it. Over the last 4 years I had unlimited bandwidth so I never paid attention. Anyway, I needed to have a system to take to work so I can download since I have unlimited over there ... so I wondered where can I find a small portable system  So there you go ... for now it's running Linux Mint and on a download mission  Linux Mint Tomorrow ... who knows. The real cool thing about this system besides the size of the mobo is the size of the power supply. It comes in two parts, the PICO-120 and the 110 watt power brick ...
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12-07-2007, 07:48 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build You could get one of those small shuttle boxs. |
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12-16-2007, 10:58 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build I picked up a morex case that was sitting in the corner of a computer shop collecting dust for a few years. Although there is no model number on the case, it looks very close to a Morex 2788. Morex I had replaced the northbridge heatsink when I got the board. I tried to install the cd-rom but the cpu heatsink was in the way. I attempted to bend some of the fins but I was not happy with the result. I ended up looking through my junk box and took a HSF off of a old AMD 400mhz. I used the spring clip that came with the Intel board and attached it. I found the fan too loud so I plugged it in to the case fan plug which regulates the speed.
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12-16-2007, 11:25 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build You should get an old aluminium briefcase and make that your case. Would be very cool. And immensely luggable.
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12-16-2007, 11:27 AM
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This case actually fits inside a laptop carrying case
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01-05-2008, 01:46 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Case was 40$ so the total was 312$. I could have used a 3.5" hdd and saved the 75$ but what the hey ... Because I am now using this new case, there is place for a 3.5" hdd inside. I'm not using it at the moment, that one and the 8 other systems laying around  In the years I have been tinkering my needs always change but one thing remains constant ... small low powered systems are always more useful than gaming rigs or for that matter retired gaming rigs. Those old power sucking overheating components are not much good for real world applications. I regularly need to have cash registers (as much as 4 at a time) for trade shows along with a spare. I use systems for printer servers, FreeNAS servers, and test setups. I have just recently discarded P2 systems, although most could have been turned into FreeNAS servers.
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01-06-2008, 12:56 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Nice  Been thinking about doing something like this for a while. |
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05-09-2008, 02:15 PM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Update I found a link to this thread today ... interesting Little Valley II - Reviews of D201GLY2, Intel's new fanless low-consumption board | Open Institute | Facilitating communication and knowledge sharing in social development I decided to install Ubuntu 8.04 on this system last week and all is good accept I needed to run video using VESA because of tearing.
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05-31-2008, 07:23 AM
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| Re: New Intel Little Valley build Well I reinstalled the mobo in the original case I built, added a 500GB hdd, a fax modem and have it running at home as a print server, fax server and file server using XP Pro. In the end it was easier to go with XP over linux because 3 out of the 4 printers I want to hook up have no linux driver support. I wanted to use Windows Home Server but since they have not fixed the data corruption bug yet, it seemed unwise to consider it. Once it is fixed, I may reconsider. Another project which may see the light of day is Ubuntu Home Server but seems quite a ways away.
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