I would be tempted to install windows on it if only to take real time temp measurements. That's like hiring a butler to heat up a hotpocket! :D You don't need windows for that. The measurements in my last post were fresh-off-the-sysctl-tree in FreeBSD. (in earlier posts I was rebooting into the BIO...

Unless your brick is unusually inefficient, there must be something (voltage regulation? I/O controllers outside the NM10?) burning power like a desktop on that board because Pineview latops reportedly use a lot less power. It would be interesting if you could post power consumption at idle and at ...

multiplexer wrote:Here's a few photos of the system (article is in Dutch, sorry about that)

That system looks great! What heatsink is that?

Desktop Atoms also use NM10 and burn about as much power as you do: 15.0-15.3 W in the BIOS; 15.3-15.5 W after adding the USB drive; 16.8 W nominal (17.8 W peak) during memtest. Unless your brick is unusually inefficient, there must be something (voltage regulation? I/O controllers outside the NM10...

Do you mean southbridge? I thought the northbridge was integrated in the CPU. My mistake. Yes, the southbridge. Yours should by all rights run cooler but doesn't. Especially since your case looks like it has a lot more airflow than Morex's. My guess is that the thermal pad is a key part of the desi...

johnnynyquist wrote:I'd appreciate any suggestions for more effective CPU coolers.

I like this one: Nexus PSM-2500
or maybe this one: Dynatron I65G

Now in your case, you dont have any fans at all from what i see in the M350 case, so 70C seems reasonable for a case with no active fans, a hdd bracket that semi obstructs half of the vents on the top. Yeah, I was thinking about trying to reorient the bracket so that the HDD sits over the IO end of...

It's good to hear that you guys think it should work. I will do some more testing. Here's an update: First, to recap, I had the BIOS configured to do thermal throttling at 70C and to shutdown at 75C. I ran memtest86+ while I went out to dinner last night; it completed one test without errors but th...

Thanks for the info, everyone. The enclosure should get warm (how else is cooling going to work?). What's your definition of borderline temps? If it's like 50C, forget it: that's fine unless Jetway have done a terrible job and failed to warn you about it. That's not the kind of temperatures supposed...

Long-time reader, first-time poster. I've just built a new gateway/webserver using the Jetway NC9C-550 motherboard (Atom N550 dual core), inside of a Mini-box M350 case. At the moment I have no active cooling. The TDP of the processor is only 8.5W and the motherboard is fanless, and the M350 enclosu...