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jimmsch

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Does anybody know anything about the mini ITX platform? I registered here and hopt to recieve one of these boards for free soon. I actually hope to recieve four of them as I registered four times using four different email addresses. I do not know if I will actually recieve them, but I hope to. I am very interested in building a mini PC in a small statue or something.

Anyway it shows the board with no HS on the CPU or chipset. I would imagine it will need one. Has anybody had any experience with this kind of board at all?

Thanks in advance -Jim
 
These boards make great routers when used with Microtik Router OS or I would even think vyatta would be great on a compact flash card with one of these. You cannot overclock these that I know of. The chipset isnt that high powered that it needs a heatsink, and they usually have at least a heatsink on the CPU and sometimes a fan depending on the CPU speed.

Another use could be to set one of these up as a MythTV box or a multimedia machine but that would be about it.
 
I was thinking it would be a DVD/CD player + internet surfer. I think the ATI Remote Wonder works with them. I was thinking of putting it into a lighthouse model and its main prurpose would be playing DVD's with the option to surf the net.

I don't think it needs to be overclocked, just needs to function and look cool.

Thanks for the reply
 
I had one of them for about a year when they first came out. They're awesome! As a DVD player, old-school emulation box, etc. etc. they're perfect. The only thing I had trouble with was recording TV shows with my ATI TV Tuner. It would have around 3% dropped frames, which is still very reasonable, but not perfect. Also, mind you, that was the first generation with no graphics optimization and SDRAM. Also, they can be OC'ed using Speedfan. I remember getting another 200Mhz out of the 800Mhz models.
 
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