I've used a rather small desktop stuffed with 2 Pulsar Ones for quite some time, which I tried to run as silent as possible - with the result of an (eventually) fried mobo (or CPU)...
Well, at least the box made it for 3 years, but it was always at least twice as noisy as my current 19" industrial case.
The latter runs without any tricks (except replacing the Intel boxed fan), while the small system was tweaked as hell - and finally to death
Sharcs typically operate at pretty high temperatures, but there isn't even much choice for CWA.
Only a couple of chips matches
economic requirements.
The specs may read impressive, but you always have to set bang versus bucks - and you'll notice a tremendous price increase once the onchip multi-ported Ram increases.
There's always been speculation about a 'next generation' board by CWA, but it would cost an aweful lot of money.
There are other problems to be adressed first (imho), otherwise it wouldn't even make sense to release something new.
The SFP platform is far from being exploited, as can be observed by lots of recent third party releases - and the new community of SDK enthusiasts is pretty likely to come up with useful stuff too, once the (usual) obstacles of learning a new system are mastered.
Flexibility and integration are still unmatched, but unfortunately that's not the easiest thing for marketing, as solid performance isn't exactly spectacular.
They are still consolidating economic figures to gain back a solid base, and under these circumstances a few flaws are acceptable imho.
cheers, Tom
