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Title: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: TheDaddy on January 29, 2012, 11:37:44 AM
Just a quick and dirty video of my mini-itx SAM440ep.

I have had it since 2008 and never really used it as I have been too busy doing other stuff.

So my knowledge of the hardware and especially OS4.1 is rather weak.

The board is a SAM440ep at 666MHz, year: 2008-09
with 512MB, onboard Radeon M9, SATA 24x DVD-RW and the award winning OCZ 60GB Agility 3 SSD SATA 3. There are no moving parts and it's absolutely silent!

I have been playing with it more and more in the last few weeks as some friends of mine wanted to know more about it and possibly going back to Amiga.

So I have assembled the fastest SAM440ep configuration I could possibly come up with and shot a couple of videos for fun.

Sorry about the quality, the video was taken at night and without any recording software just a camera pointing at my 24" monitor.

After finishing the build I have to say I am very impressed with this tiny machine.

I'll finish part two later today.

Have fun!:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JUWtNN-P8
Title: Re: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: Duce on January 29, 2012, 01:50:55 PM
Nice to see you're having fun with it!  Got the exact same board, 24x optical drive, only difference being a 32 GB Patriot SATA SSD in the machine.  Lots of fun.
Title: Re: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: TheDaddy on January 29, 2012, 02:45:51 PM
Quote from: Duce;678096
Nice to see you're having fun with it!  Got the exact same board, 24x optical drive, only difference being a 32 GB Patriot SATA SSD in the machine.  Lots of fun.


I can't believe how fast this SSD is! It makes the tiny, puny SAM fly!
It doesn't beat my 4.8GHz quad pc with Win7 (7 seconds) but the pc has SATA 3 (6Gbit/sec) against the SAM's 1.5Gbit/sec and yes I am having s much fun, I am glad I bought all these parts for it, they are all brand new except the 3 years old SAM.

Quick update:

I have enabled DMA permanently (thanks ChrisH).

Now booting in 15.3 seconds

Warm Reset in 10 seconds.

Off to edit the video... :D
Title: Re: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: Iggy on January 29, 2012, 03:53:29 PM
Neat form factor.
Very compact.
Title: Re: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: TheDaddy on January 29, 2012, 07:18:31 PM
Edited the video with the latest times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JUWtNN-P8

:)

Thanks Iggy, it's a very nice, compact and above all silent system, you can't hear anything and because there is no HD, no moving parts and no heat generated (apart from when the DVD-RW is used).
Title: Re: Quick and dirty video of my SAM440ep mini-itx part one
Post by: TheDaddy on January 30, 2012, 01:27:38 PM
Added a couple of comments in part one of the video.

Does anyone want to see anything else in part two?

Anything cool and funky I could add? Obviously something Amiga-only related.

If so please post it here. :)