ITX formfactor

vibrokatana

vibrokatana

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I stumbled across the ITX formfacter while thinking of something to do with my plephora of spare time, I was debating setting up a via c7 to take over my tv recording capabilities. The formfactor is amazing, with it only extending just a little past the header on the back of standard atx motherboards. Not to mention that the via cpus only sip power even under full load.

Post ye comments! Probably looking at about 400 dollars for the parts, not to mention giving a companion to my desktop...
 
Good idea. Even though they don't have the world's most robust clock speeds, they are great little boards. I'm actually moving my HTPC to a 1.0 Ghz Eden chipset ITX just to save room in my too cramped case. Plus, they are pretty reasonably priced, I should be able to make a small profit in the conversion. :D

Are you looking at the little cube cases to put it in or are you going to do a custom case?
 
I love p3 and similar systems, you take a piece of trash with 128mb of ram and 700+mhz p3 or anthlon, install debian or mandriva on it. and bam its a suitibly web browser/office/image editor with little to no lag...

for awhile I had a duel p2 400(mandriva linux) running as a local file server, too bad it recently gave up the ghost.

The new C7s give the pentium Ms a run for their money, coming in at 75% as efficient per clock compared to the P-M, but they use a fraction of the power and emit nearly no heat

I think ill wait till early next summer for the new chip via is putting out, probably see the c7/motherboard combos down to around ~130

the application for such a small and quiet formfactor is absolutely astonishing
 
It would be interesting to see how well VIA would do if they actually focused in the performance market, considering their cpu is only about a fourth of the size of a Pentium M and nearly catches up with it in performance for the same clock speed.
 
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