Mini ITX - has anyone tried these
Mini ITX - has anyone tried these Posted on: 19.11.2009 by Buster Kiper http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...%3DI%26otn%3D2This looks interesting. A little more expandable then say a netbook. I do like that you can mount it to the back of a monitor. It would be interesting to try. | |
| Shay Wyche 21.11.2009 |
Originally Posted by mmauve
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| Buster Kiper 19.11.2009 | http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...%3DI%26otn%3D2 This looks interesting. A little more expandable then say a netbook. I do like that you can mount it to the back of a monitor. It would be interesting to try. |
| Roselle Mcnaul 21.11.2009 | Yeah, Mini ITX boards are sort of a niche market which are easy to overlook considering that larger form factor boards get all the cool technology perks. Times are catching up though, we are getting to a stage where more power is being fit into smaller packages. Another board I recommend is the Zotec GF9300-G-E, which is pretty much the same as the one that I have, but for about $20 more, you get built in WiFi, and a massive improvement: a full blown PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, so you can load up a fairly good graphics card into it. Some consider this a big deal considering that one of the biggest bottlenecks with Mini ITX boards is the graphical expansion capabilities. Another really cool innovation from the people who pioneered formfactor solutions (VIA) is the PICO: It's about the size of a deck of cards, packs a 1ghz CPU, 2GB DDR2 667 RAM (not included), and onboard 32MB of VRAM. A self builder kit called an "Artigo" is out on the market for $200 for those who love to tinker with stuff like this. |
| Shay Wyche 21.11.2009 |
Originally Posted by mmauve
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| Shelby Blancaflor 21.11.2009 | @autonic sounds like a great idea, post it! regarding mini itx in general I`de believe that you might rather look for boards that don't come with an atom and rather go for one that takes the normal intel desktop CPUs, since it should be more bang for the buck.While there are some people on the community that run traktor on a 1,6 atom on the community , most of them seem to be cautious to run the program with all features switched on. So I believe if you`re building a dedicated music machine anyway, a rather bulky itx with an atom attached is kind of worst of all worlds (large size plus slow xpu) whereas an itx with any of the newer intel core2 (e5xxxx) should give you plenty of headroom. |
| Roselle Mcnaul 20.11.2009 | I did alot of work with the corrections industry which involved really rugged kiosks which worked off Mini ITX form factor solutions. One motherboard I use for compact but power intensive applications was the Intel DG45FC, a Mini ITX board supporting a E8400 Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz (1333 FSB), 4GB DDR2, and a 320GB HD. Runs extremely well, low temp, even has HDMI port and eSATA. You can find out more here: http://www.intel.com/Products/Deskto...C-overview.htm And for rugged travel cases: http://www.logicsupply.com/ Load up a solid state drive if you plan on doing extensive traveling with it. Other than that, I attached this to an ELO or Leading Touch LCD touchscreen (Leading Touch being way better) to sort of have a all-in-one rugged kiosk for whatever needs I had, including Traktor. Total cost is around $700 or so |
| Karine Noe 20.11.2009 | I'm actually going for a setup like this in my upcoming controller build. But not with a ATOM processor, instead a AMD Phenom II Quad Core @ 3.0ghz - and 4GB of RAM on a regular M-ATX board (30*24cm). I've concluded that it's possible to build a 32*32cm*16cm (12,5"*12,5"*6") controller that will fit all of the hardware components, a graphics card, a pci sound card and a foldable USB display inside - and a set of buttons and rotaries on top. I'll provide a design workprint as soon as I start building. |
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