Fanless motherboard to build gui-less programmable effects pedal

Liepa

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Mar 19, 2013
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Hi, I was shopping about for a fanless motherboard to build a programmable effects pedal. My requirements are quite specific - I don't need a GUI (I'm going to run gui-less linux on it, probably Gentoo) but I need low latency sound input/processing/output. I am planning to run pure data on the system as the main application to process sound. I was looking at the fanless Mini itx boards but they have so much on them, especially for video, that they might be a bit of an overkill. Are there any other motherboards that I should look into? Any DSP oriented small motherboards? I am aware that for some of them I would need an additional sound card.