Pico ITX

Mithosphere · January 29th, 2007

Via's incredible shrinking mobo line spawns "pico-ITX"

This is like pantsplosion good!

Jokerswild · January 29th, 2007

I never knew they had anything like that around.

pc_guy · January 29th, 2007

It's the size of a small P&S camera, that's amazing. What kind of PSU do you need to run this? The connector has only 12 pins.

Lead Head · January 29th, 2007

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Originally Posted by pc_guy

It's the size of a small P&S camera, that's amazing. What kind of PSU do you need to run this? The connector has only 12 pins.

AFAIK you either need a special nano/pico-itx PSU, or you can just get a normal ATX/Mini-ITX PSU and get an adapter cable

wtcnbrwndo4u · January 29th, 2007

A normal PSU... Lol.

Sad thing is that it's just not that powerful... I'd rather buy a Mac Mini or build one using one of those mini AOpen cases.

Panda Man · January 29th, 2007

It doesn't really need to be powerful, it would be great to up your geekiness and a fun little rig to play with, perhaps a linux box, but there is really no practical use for it.

Nice find though

Quakindude · January 29th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Panda Man

It doesn't really need to be powerful, it would be great to up your geekiness and a fun little rig to play with, perhaps a linux box, but there is really no practical use for it.

Nice find though

I disagree about its practicality. Imagine having a flip open case built into your coffee table. With a 12-14" LCD, this would be awesome to use in the living room Internet surfing or in the kitchen as a streaming box. With how small that sucker is, and a 1Ghz CPU, you could do all sorts of neat stuff.

How about a small Internet stand in the bathroom?

wtcnbrwndo4u · January 30th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Quakindude

I disagree about its practicality. Imagine having a flip open case built into your coffee table. With a 12-14" LCD, this would be awesome to use in the living room Internet surfing or in the kitchen as a streaming box. With how small that sucker is, and a 1Ghz CPU, you could do all sorts of neat stuff.

How about a small Internet stand in the bathroom?

Haha... Reminds me of the Sims... The toilet with the built-in 56K modem. HAH!

But I took a look at the Egg for ITX boards and found some nice ones for C2D mobile CPUs, but they turned out to be $310+.

Mithosphere · January 30th, 2007

well ya have to remember that its both the cpu and the mobo and some other stuff packed on to a tiny plate, of course its gonna be expensive, but definitely cool none the less.

I'd probably buy one just to install it into a car or motorcycle, you could even pair it with one of those 1.8 inch drives and put it into a breifcase.

wtcnbrwndo4u · January 30th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Mithosphere

well ya have to remember that its both the cpu and the mobo and some other stuff packed on to a tiny plate, of course its gonna be expensive, but definitely cool none the less.

I'd probably buy one just to install it into a car or motorcycle, you could even pair it with one of those 1.8 inch drives and put it into a breifcase.

Oh no, it was just a mobo, no CPU. Very homo.

It's useful for say a carputer setup... I'd just buy a Mac mini instead... You know what, I should do that.

January 29th, 2007	#1
Mithosphere Yeah, so are your pants! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cherry Capital of the World Posts: 564	Pico ITX Via's incredible shrinking mobo line spawns "pico-ITX" This is like pantsplosion good! Pentium D 915\|EVGA 7050 mATX\|OCZ XTC 2GB\|XFX 7900GS XT\|Hyper Type-R 580W\|Qmicra 2 Case

January 29th, 2007	#2
Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,211	Re: Pico ITX I never knew they had anything like that around.

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January 29th, 2007	#5
wtcnbrwndo4u Teh Brown Staffer Join Date: May 2006 Location: KS Posts: 2,291	Re: Pico ITX A normal PSU... Lol. Sad thing is that it's just not that powerful... I'd rather buy a Mac Mini or build one using one of those mini AOpen cases. - Core 2 Quad Q6600 - DFI Infinity 975X - 4GB Corsair XMS2 w/ DHX DDR2-800 - 250GB Seagate 7200.10RPM + 160GB Hitachi 5400.4RPM - ATi Radeon X1900XT 256MB - Cooler Master Centurion 5 + OCZ StealthXStream 600W - Acer 19" P191W Monitor - Logitech Z-5500 Digital + Logitech MX Revolution - Vista Ultimate x64

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Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,910	Re: Pico ITX It doesn't really need to be powerful, it would be great to up your geekiness and a fun little rig to play with, perhaps a linux box, but there is really no practical use for it. Nice find though Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

January 30th, 2007	#9
Mithosphere Yeah, so are your pants! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cherry Capital of the World Posts: 564	Re: Pico ITX well ya have to remember that its both the cpu and the mobo and some other stuff packed on to a tiny plate, of course its gonna be expensive, but definitely cool none the less. I'd probably buy one just to install it into a car or motorcycle, you could even pair it with one of those 1.8 inch drives and put it into a breifcase. Pentium D 915\|EVGA 7050 mATX\|OCZ XTC 2GB\|XFX 7900GS XT\|Hyper Type-R 580W\|Qmicra 2 Case

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