Thread: Jetway NC62K Review

does have serial port support it seems

Hey Swordfishhunter, are you really saying that a cold boot, ie: from power on to Windows desktop takes only 8 seconds? That's amazing ... most boards take 8 seconds just to complete POST.

Please post a video ... this I gotta see!

Im also interested in seeing a video of your boot/hibernation times. Anyone know how much power is required by this motherboard? Im wondering if the M2 is good enough for it...

Also wondering if anyone has measurements on how tall this thing is? With the big heatsink+fan, it doesnt look like it will fit in alot of the small mini-itx cases like the mo-co-so and voompc.

I have this board, with an M2-ATX and the mo-co-so case. Works well.

I have the AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 4850e CPU. The heat sink that comes with the CPU is too tall to fit into the case. But the motherboard comes with a CPU heat sink also, which isn't as tall, and it fits fine. The fan that comes with the shorter heat sink is much louder than the one that AMD gives you, so I switched the fans.

The CPU ran very cool with the mobo sitting on the bench, but when I put it in the case, it runs much warmer. The mo-co-so case doesn't move much air through it at all. According to Speedfan, the CPU runs between 55 and 60 deg C while playing songs in RR with vis enabled. This is within the safe operating range specified by AMD, so I won't worry about it unless it gets much hotter, like after it's been sitting in the car in the sun on a hot summer day. Then I might have to modify the case to add another fan, or maybe just drill a lot more holes in it.

I measured the power usage of the board a couple weeks ago, but I don't remember exactly what it was. I'll measure it again and report back.

It resumes from hibernate fast enough for me, but I wouldn't mind it being faster. In the neighborhood of 30 seconds from flipping the power switch to RR playing music. I have 2 GB of RAM. I've read that resuming would be faster if I had less RAM. A significant portion of that delay is POST time. I'd like to get that faster, if possible.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin

Okay I was able to take some measurements. I measured the current on the 12V input to the M2-ATX. This will be slightly higher than the amount of current output by the M2, since it isn't 100% efficient.

During bootup, it fluctuated between 5 and 6 Amps, with a peak at 7 A. After bootup, with the computer relatively idle, it was drawing about 3.5 - 3.9 A. Playing music with vis enabled, it fluctuated between 3.6 and 4.2 A. With a virus scan also running, which used about 70% CPU, the power consumption went up to between 5 and 6 A.

To convert those measurements to Watts, multiply by 12.

Items attached to the PSU during test:

Mobo w/4850e CPU, 2GB RAM, 2 mobo fans
1 case fan
160 GB 2.5" SATA HD
USB keyboard and mouse
Wired LAN connection (no Wi-Fi)

The monitor was using external power supply.

Hope this helps!
-- Kevin

Thats quite a bit of power. Can it be underclocked in the bios? I definately think it will overheat in the mo-co-so case during the summer.

Really, that's a lot of power? 48 - 72 Watts, including fans and hard drive? I don't know what's considered a lot of power for a car PC. I thought that was pretty good, but of course I'm used to desktop systems.

I'll probably start by drilling some holes in the case right over the CPU fan. I'll underclock if I have to, but I'd rather not.

-- Kevin

I dunno, my Via setup probably draws about 30-40W including the monitor. The mo-co-so case sucks for cpu ventilation. Even with my efficient 1ghz C3 processor, it gets over 70C on a hot 30C day. I didnt want to ruin the case by drilling, so I just made some cardboard ducts for intake and exhaust.