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“The market for low power draw (below 20 Watts),
passively cooled, small form factor motherboards was until recently
dominated by rather expensive VIA boards and to a smaller extent
AMD (with the Geode). Even last years’ first generation Atom did
not fit into this category as first generation Atom motherboards
(with the commonly used power-hungry Intel 945GC chipset or even
with the Nvidia ION) typically consumed 20-30 Watts and therefore
usually needed a fan on the chipset.“The new Pineview Atom combined with the new NM10 Express
single-chip-chipset on the other hand, makes Atom based
motherboards that only draw 12-15 Watts a reality, which means they
can be passively cooled and used for purposes where they need to be
running 24/7, while minimizing the impact on the electricity
bill.“Apart from industrial uses, these new Pineview Atom
motherboards are ideal in combination with Linux to make small, low
power consumption, 24/7 home mail or web servers, BT-clients, file
servers, home surveillance appliances, routers, firewalls or even
small PCs for web browsing and email.”