[time-nuts] NTP jitter with Linux

[gary]

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131663

Yep. This is what I run 24 and 7 for a number of monitoring tasks. It 
has an Intel SSD. Mobo was $140 at Fry's. SSD was a Fry's special too. 
It has a Nvidia ion2 (it does home theater PC streaming at times.] USB 
3. Gigabit ethernet. Ignore the comment about it not playing 720P. It 
does 1080 no problem IF you are using hardware acceleration.

The D525 was the first 64 bit atom. It can use a full 4G of RAM. There 
may be better Atoms out there now since I've built this.

This particular mobo is very picky on RAM. It is best to read the 
feedback on Newegg, which was of more use than the Asus webpage. [I see 
someone claims 8Gbytes..eh, I think the chipset limit is 4.] Using 
SODIMMs is a drawback (more expensive than standard RAM).

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"I did the same thing.  They work well and even if you have a "free"
quad core PC in a closet some place it is cost effective to toss the
thing in the trash and by a new computer with an Atom CPU."