Mini-itx mothboard suggestion for linuxcnc

Hi,
I found several cheap Mini-itx motherboards with parallel port and would see your comment which one is best for linuxcnc.

ECS NM70-I2/1037U

ECS KBN-I/2100

Gigabyte GA-C1007UN-D

Thanks & regards

Hi

I think as with previous similar posts, until someone tries them, it is just a guess.

I would be most tempted by the ECS KBN-I/2100, mostly because it has AMD chipset with radeon video, which generally are supported fairly well in open source drivers.
It also has 2 further PCIe mini slots, albeit you will be limited to what will fit into them, certainly not a video card, but maybe a wireless card.

The 2 cards with Intel N70 chipsets are similar, but I would want to know exactly what the video chipset was and make sure there are drivers for the OS I intended using.
The ECS board make no mention of anything except windoze and the Gigabyte blurb just disclaims any responsibility for whether suitable drivers exist for Linux, and neither specify exactly what the chipset is.
I suspect it will be one of the Intel HD graphics series, in which case you would need a minimum of Ubuntu 12.10 or equivilent (certainly something with a > 3.1 kernel) before the Intel Graphics installer will support it

If you buy one, please write up the latency etc in the wiki.

regards

More hardware details are:

ECS NM70-I2/1037U
- Intel Celeron 1037U (17W dual core 1.80GHz 2MB cache) with Intel HD graphic (Ivy Bridge) (350MHz)

ECS KBN-I/2100
- AMD E1-2100 (9W dual core 1.0GHz 1MB cache) with Radeon HD 8210 (300MHz)
- fanless design

Gigabyte GA-C1007UN-D'
- Intel Celeron 1037U (17W dual core 1.50GHz 2MB cache) with Intel HD graphic (Ivy Bridge) (350MHz)
- dual LAN; bigger CPU heat sink

Grapics is AMD E1-2100 better. However, AMD CPU run at 1GHz only. Will it be too slow for LinuxCNC?

AMD CPU run at 1GHz only. Will it be too slow for LinuxCNC?

It probably is a bit slow.

This one has been tested by someone and appears good (much faster at 3GHz)

www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...omputer-for-linuxcnc