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Has anyone here got a mini-ITX system running? As I came across them a few days ago as a collegue in production at our work place bought 2 mini-ITX boards(£7 with staff discount) and they had onboard LAN, Sound and graphics as well as a 800mhz CPU. Was wondering if anyone has any tips in building one and are there any good places to get small cases?
Want to build one up pretty cheap for a download PC to keep on all day. Thinking of the £7 board with an old Sony DVD writer, about 80gb HDD as well as 512mb RAM.
Want to build one up pretty cheap for a download PC to keep on all day. Thinking of the £7 board with an old Sony DVD writer, about 80gb HDD as well as 512mb RAM.
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Afternoon wrote:
> I am going to play around with a Mini ITX PC, although to be fair they
> are not going to beat a laptop or a desktop pc.
> [URL]http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/[/URL]
Of course not, but for a small download PC or file server its fine.
Think our discount is that Tyla so not quite as good as yours :( Those Mini-ITX that we have I think are out of stock as they were just old supplies which they were selling off.
> I am going to play around with a Mini ITX PC, although to be fair they
> are not going to beat a laptop or a desktop pc.
> [URL]http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/[/URL]
Of course not, but for a small download PC or file server its fine.
Think our discount is that Tyla so not quite as good as yours :( Those Mini-ITX that we have I think are out of stock as they were just old supplies which they were selling off.
Cant be bothered with switches, I like a boot menu or I use my bootable OS's like GeekOS (really good Linux Build with built in Media Players)
Those mini computers are great, i especially like the one where that guy built one to fit in a windows xp box, and it had a switch which changed the OS that booted depending on how it was orientated.
Tyla wrote:
> I get a better deal here. Cost + vat for anything from Games to
> hardware. Only found out theother day, after ordering my X800, I
> could have picked it up for less than £100 if I had done it
> through work! Slightly gutted!
Now Tyla, ive always been a great admirer of your work...
> I get a better deal here. Cost + vat for anything from Games to
> hardware. Only found out theother day, after ordering my X800, I
> could have picked it up for less than £100 if I had done it
> through work! Slightly gutted!
Now Tyla, ive always been a great admirer of your work...
I am going to play around with a Mini ITX PC, although to be fair they are not going to beat a laptop or a desktop pc.
[URL]http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/[/URL]
[URL]http://www.itx-warehouse.co.uk/[/URL]
adrian wrote:
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> I can't really help you that much, but I'm intrigued as to where he
> managed to get £7 boards. Even with a staff discount.
>
> Work for Evesham Technology. He had 2 of these boards and a HDD(dont
> know the size) for just over £50. Think staff discount is trade
> price, + VAT, + 5%.
I get a better deal here. Cost + vat for anything from Games to hardware. Only found out theother day, after ordering my X800, I could have picked it up for less than £100 if I had done it through work! Slightly gutted!
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> I can't really help you that much, but I'm intrigued as to where he
> managed to get £7 boards. Even with a staff discount.
>
> Work for Evesham Technology. He had 2 of these boards and a HDD(dont
> know the size) for just over £50. Think staff discount is trade
> price, + VAT, + 5%.
I get a better deal here. Cost + vat for anything from Games to hardware. Only found out theother day, after ordering my X800, I could have picked it up for less than £100 if I had done it through work! Slightly gutted!
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> I can't really help you that much, but I'm intrigued as to where he
> managed to get £7 boards. Even with a staff discount.
Work for Evesham Technology. He had 2 of these boards and a HDD(dont know the size) for just over £50. Think staff discount is trade price, + VAT, + 5%. The boards were VIA and had a 800mhz CPU with heatsink and fan. They are very small boards enough for 1 PCI. The only decent site I have found is [URL]http://www.mini-itx.com[/URL]
> I can't really help you that much, but I'm intrigued as to where he
> managed to get £7 boards. Even with a staff discount.
Work for Evesham Technology. He had 2 of these boards and a HDD(dont know the size) for just over £50. Think staff discount is trade price, + VAT, + 5%. The boards were VIA and had a 800mhz CPU with heatsink and fan. They are very small boards enough for 1 PCI. The only decent site I have found is [URL]http://www.mini-itx.com[/URL]
poopots wrote:
> Dont expect wonders with onboard graphics.
I know. My main PC is a XP2800 with 1gb RAM and a 9800 Pro. Really looking for a quiet small PC which can be left on all day and night, consume low amounts of power and be powerfull enough to run Win XP and be used as a download machine.
> Dont expect wonders with onboard graphics.
I know. My main PC is a XP2800 with 1gb RAM and a 9800 Pro. Really looking for a quiet small PC which can be left on all day and night, consume low amounts of power and be powerfull enough to run Win XP and be used as a download machine.
Has any one seen them pc chips ones?
Dont expect wonders with onboard graphics.
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