mini itx

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 1:06pm #1

where can i buy mini itx mobo's?

i know about mini-itx.com
and jes do one of them, but...

anywhere else?

Rew · 13-07-2004 1:16pm

Komplett do them form time to time but your better off buying from where you have already mentioned. Hvae about 8 of em here. Funky things. Looking forward to the 2.5 inch square ones.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 1:22pm

8? what the hell do you do with 8?

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 1:31pm

and how big are the psu's that you use?
can you hook up an ordinary atx psu to it?
i'm gonna need to power a 3.5"hdd and 5.25 optical

Rew · 13-07-2004 1:31pm

Yeah 8 or 10 of the little feckers.

Very hand little test machines for farting about with but generally we use them as wireless access points (2 PCI Ahteros WLAN cards, some ram, a CF card and a HDD and a linux distro).

We are usin the in IrishWAN/SoutheastWAN as well, some of them are doing very long distance links (40k+).

oscarBravo · 13-07-2004 1:37pm

linitx.com are generally cheaper than mini-itx.com. We use them for meshboxes here in Knockmore - the 500MHz variety with no moving parts, ergo greater reliability. I also have a 1GHz M10000 as my desktop running Gentoo.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 1:38pm

i heard they can only take hard drives up to 136gigs,
and you have to buy a pci ide controller to use bigger...

that true?

Rew · 13-07-2004 1:54pm

Originally posted by davidclayton
and how big are the psu's that you use?
can you hook up an ordinary atx psu to it?
i'm gonna need to power a 3.5"hdd and 5.25 optical

We have little PSU's (under 200w I think) that only have a couple of power headers. We also have and use full size regular PSU's. Same connector.

Havn't heard of a limit on the hardisk, BIOS upgrade would sort that anyway.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 3:35pm

1.12. Will a 160GB drive work with my EPIA motherboard?

48 bit LBA is not supported on the first generation EPIA motherboards. The largest drive you will be able to attach is 136GB. Larger drives will be recognised as 136GB. EPIA M motherboards will support 48 bit LBA. One solution would be to use an IDE controller PCI card.

http://www.mini-itx.com/faq.asp#Hardware11

this means i would have to spend at least £90
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=12_45&products_id=132&osCsid=bc1cd9908cb81b9516b04953f13977df

BeatFreak · 13-07-2004 4:38pm

EPIA M motherboards will support 48 bit LBA

There's a little hint in the your quote. Just buy a Epia M board (the most widely available) and you should be fine, you might have to get a small registery edit to enable the 48bit LBA ( I did anyway) but other than that you should be fine. I second http://www.linitx.com, that's where I got all my mini-itx gear.

This is how mine ended up

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 4:45pm

that's what my quote says.
epia m, not normal epia.
still gonna cost £90,
but its fanless, so that's pretty cool.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 4:46pm

i like your travla case. very iccle.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 4:53pm

here's what i'm thinking...
a sound system!
touch screen tft for mp3s.
hooked up to amp + speakers
capable of watching dvds, but probably won't use it for that much.

epia m 6000 mobo
128mb ddr - already have
200gig hdd
pioneer slot in dvd
old psu 200-300 watts, cut up to fit a 120mm fan
7" touch screen tft - already have

total cost [not including what i have]
= €300-330

WHAT YE THINK?

Col_Loki · 13-07-2004 5:05pm

The slot in pioneer drive is noisey, i thought it would be great too but i wasent that impressed.

Im thinking a noise will be a factor?

Rew · 13-07-2004 6:06pm

Where did u get the 7" TFT?

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 6:22pm

about 6 months ago @ www.cartft.de

i once heard that you can slow down the speed that a drive spins a disc at.
e.g. from 32x to 2x, therefore making it less noisy.

anyone know anything of this?
is it software/hardware/firmware???

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 6:30pm

actually i just checked cartft.de to see if they have the suitable via epia fanless mobo...

http://www.cartft.com/shop/catalog/il/63

it's cheaper here than on linitx!

quarryman · 13-07-2004 6:33pm

case?

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 6:51pm

custom made to have the tft sit into / onto
[but i don't want to remove tft housing coz it might end up in a car some day]
1 single 120mm fan to cool the lot.

i'm thinking i could pick up a 200w psu here on baords for free and mod it.

davidclayton · 13-07-2004 7:22pm

come to think of it...
how the hell will i make the case?

what is best metal or plastic?
maybe i could pick up some perspex.
where would i get that?

mini itx

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