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Old 12-30-04, 03:36 PM Thread Starter   #1
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What small form factors systems do you have ?


I have a MSI Mega 651 HTPC with a running a 2.8 Intel P4 with 1 gig of Samsung DDR333, A Maxtor 200 gb IDE hard Disk with a 8mb buffer Dual Layer Lite-On DVD Writer and a TV@nywhere Master its currently running Windows XP Pro with Showshifter and a LCD Screen.
Overall Its a good quality peice of kit, the radio and tv both obtain a good quality reception with the remote control able to transmit from reasonable distances, the case is a good quality aluminium effort.. When running the system is near silent.

I also have a Mini-ITX M1200 with a laptop DVD Writer and a Western Digital IDE 120gb hard disk with 8mb buffer along with 512 mb of low profile kingmax PC2100 running on SuSE Linux with MythTV .. It runs OK on Linux, it runs like a three legged dog on Windows

I just got a Insight P4 ITX Motherboard for Christmas but am yet to play with it

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Old 12-30-04, 03:48 PM   #2
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I have a Gateway flexatx system.

P3 800mhz
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I use it to play DVDs and movies since its about VCR-sized. Painted it black.

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Old 12-30-04, 04:39 PM   #3
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I have an EG65 E-Cube.

p4 2.4c northwood
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Old 12-30-04, 05:07 PM   #4
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I have none, but I build those for people...

I have built 5 Shuttle SN85G4's and a SN95G5. I may have some more orders coming in soon

One has gone to my brother
One to a college friend (which she very much likes)
Three to my workplace

And the SN95 to my boss at work (he wanted a good small PC... lol)

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Old 12-30-04, 05:44 PM   #5
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I have a Shuttle SN45G, see sig for details. I am using it as a gaming/working rig in my student flat. Cos I have to drive home every weekend for work, its perfect for traveling cos its so small
I am also planning on building a carpc out of a epia V soonish
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Old 12-30-04, 10:43 PM   #6
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I have a Flex ATX system in an IBM Netvista case, slightly modded. PIII-933, 512 MB. It's currently running Gentoo Linux.

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Old 12-31-04, 03:34 AM   #7
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I have an Uniden thin client (MediaGX 133mhz) with few parts added to it. Is this counts ?
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Old 12-31-04, 09:25 AM   #8
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I will build a system out of the Via EPIA-N board as soon as they release it in the US. (note it is Nano-ITX form factor 12cm square)

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Shuttle SB75g2v2 is what I currently have. I had a SN41g2 for a few weeks before I decided I didn't need two.

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Old 01-02-05, 12:36 PM   #10
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Old 01-02-05, 04:17 PM   #11
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Is that sitting on top of a GameCube or is it attached/part of it?

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Is that sitting on top of a GameCube or is it attached/part of it?
It's just sitting on top of it for a size comparison. As you can see it has the same footprint but is a little shorter.

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Old 01-03-05, 12:45 AM   #13
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i got a VIA EPIA-M 1GHz Nehemiah core
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It currently lives in a money box
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Old 01-03-05, 01:22 AM   #14
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I have a ThinkNIC (New Internet Computer).

Cyrix MII 266 (200 MHz)
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4GB Travelstar Laptop Drive added

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Is that related to the WebSurfer(Or WebSurfer Pro)?

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The insides look similar but the outside is much less stylish and set-top. My NIC looks more like a mini-computer than a WebTV box or modern VCR. It's also smaller than the WebSurfer Pro, and only has room for a very low-profile 64MB RAM chip. I'd upgrade it to 128 or 256 if I could find a short enough stick. The NIC doesn't have any sort of PCI or ISA interface either, and all internal molex connectors are of the floppy drive variety (I had to make an adapter to use the hard drive). I also had to make my own male-male IDE adapter, because the motherboard has a female IDE connector, like the ones on the cable.

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Im looking at an Inspire ITX (12cm*12cm) for P4, even has a PCI slot

DFI make them aswell apparently, but thier site is a mess i cant find them.

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does it still have the MOC and stuff?

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Im looking at an Inspire ITX (12cm*12cm) for P4, even has a PCI slot

DFI make them aswell apparently, but thier site is a mess i cant find them.

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All the Via Epia series ITX motherboards have a PCI slot, although a great deal of people do not use this as you have to decide to either use a riser to change the PCI slot angle which is turn effects air flow over the motherboard, or use a half height PCI card which can obviously effect product choice, using a full size PCI card in the ITX platform creates a system not far of a Shuttle in terms of height. In this situation obtaing a Shuttle with better performance, wider processor choice and better sound often makes more far more sence.

Also when you state the Inspire ITX platform, I am assuming that you mean the Insight P4-ITX which happens to have dimensions of (17cm*17cm) as defined by the form factor. It is the Nano-ITX form factor from Via which has a (12cm*12cm) dimension of which there are no P4 versions.
There was previously four companys producing P4-ITX platforms. Insight is the only one which I am aware of is still doing such, many of these systems had stability problems due to the tight motherboard design ensuring that the large P4 heatsinks got close enough to heat the RAM up.
Its also worth remembering that the Insight P4-ITX only supports a 478 processors with a 400/533 bus speed and Prescott Socket 478 Pentiums or Celerons are *not* supported (e.g. Celeron D - i.e. any 90nm CPUs).

When considering all this and the Via chipset, I personally would look more towards a P4 Shuttle type system with a Nforce chipset than a P4 ITX

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I have a desire to make a small form factor pc for use in the living room to provide tv recording/playback functionality among other things...

someday...

That or build one inside of something else... although I don't know how adept I will be at contstruction of that time... time will tell.

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