Perfect ABS Plastic Server Enclosure from Radio Shack

[MarkHaysHarris777]

   

The ABS cased PineA64 board(b) is now running headless (as originally designed) and can be controlled either way, via network ssh, or via VNC.

hdmi is still available as needed, as well the serial console; so this little beastie is versatile as well as powerful. 

The pic above is the VNC (mate) desktop being displayed on my iMac with a -geometry of 1650x1040. When running on the local network, in full screen, this setup is very quick with very little interactive latency (neither in the mouse, nor in the keyboard).

I am starting the above vnc4server with :

vncserver :1 -geometry 1650x1040 -depth 24 -dpi 96  &

I have noticed that when the hdmi port is not active the GPU ( SoC ) runs quite a bit cooler with the same heatsink &fan-- in the high 20(s)C  as apposed to the high 30(s)C with the hdmi active.