Mini Motherboard

Intel D510MO Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:40:30 +0000

Big Bruins blog have posted a review of Intel D510MO Mini-ITX motherboard. This mini motherboard is powered with 1.66GHz dual core Intel Atom processor and is fanless – cooled with heatsink. They have tested it with SSD (solid state drive) and fanless Pico PSU so they got totally noiseless system! Motherboard is very easy to expand as it is build with two memory slots, two SATA ports, a PCI slot, a mini PCI Express connection, and a few of USB ports.

Thanks to their review you will learn more about this motherboard performance. Motherboard looks to be easy to expand. Unfortunately it is not enough powerful for gaming and it support only DirectX 9. You will find more details in this review.

First Zotac ION 2 powered NETTOP!

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:55:42 +0000

Zotac have announced their first mini computer powered by Mini-ITX motherboard with ION2 chipset onboard! That is wonderful news for all HTPC enthusiasts! ION2 is supposed to be even more powerful that first generation of ION (that is still the best solution for hardware encoding on Mini-ITX motherboards).

New Zotac’s nettop is called Zbox HD-ID11 and is powered by Nvidia GPU with Intel’s Dual Core D510 Atom CPU running at 1.6GHz. New chipset will allow your applications to automatically switch from built in Intel GPU to NVIDIA with hardware video encoding that will work perfectly with your Full HD movies.

New ZBOX will be sold without RAM nor HDD but Zotac have left some space for a single 200 pin DDR2-800 SODIMM and a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive bay… So you can make your own setup that would fit all you needs!

Moreover like all recent Zotac’s mini motherboards this nettop have 802.11 wifi, gigabit ethernet, six USB 2.0 ports, a multi-format card reader, VGA and full 1080p HDMI with 8-channel sound.

We still don’t know the price of new ZBOX. But whatever it will be – I want one!

Sapphire 785G Mini-ITX motherboard

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:29:03 +0000

Sapphire have released a new IPC-AM3DD785G ITX motherboard with AMD socket AM3 stand. Their mini motherboard support DDR3 memory and AMD CPUs rated up to 65W TDP. This motherboard is in Mini-ITX small form factor – but it is not worse from most of “big” motherboard featuring dual DDR3 memory slots and a PCI-Express 16-lane expansion slot.

Motherboard is powered by AMD 785 chipset which includes integrated graphics equivalent to the HD 4200 series, with DirectX 10.1 support. Moreover this mini motherboard has integrated UVD 2.0 (Universal Video Decoder) for on-board decoding of HD-DVD and Blu-ray content. This video decoder supports multiple HD streams and can perform detailed video enhancements on the fly.

Sapphire 785G Mini-ITX motherboard have been equipped with 10 USB, 4 SATA and IDE, Gigabit LAN, 6-channel audio and SPDIF as well as VGA and HDMI video outputs. It sound like perfect solution for any HTPC!

Water-Cooled Mini-ITX pc from CyberPower

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:37:47 +0000

CyberPower have announced a new version of their compact LAN Mini H2o V2 PC. This mini-pc is packed with the latest Intel LGA 1156 Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs with P55 chipset and super-fast and smooth Direct X 11 graphics. They claim that it is one of the smallest and fastest Mini Computers on the world. For sure it can rival with many of full size desktop pc’s and it measures only 11.25 (L) x 8.75 (W) x 7 (H) inches and weighs under 10 pounds. It have been built with LAN gaming in mind.

This mini-ITX computer is powered by DFI LANParty MI P55-T36 motherboard. But thanks to water cooling it is even more powerful that stated in it’s specification. Computer is packed with Intel Core i7 turbo-boosted 860 CPU, and ATI’s Radeon 5670 video card, which features DirectX 11 graphics and Eyefinity 3-monitor display technology.

What is most unique in this mini computer is that it features LAN Mini H2o V2 Asetek’s LCLC water-cooling solution. All of it is packed to the compact sized Silverstone SST-SG05 chassis that let you keep the processor cool and to provide excellent overclocking capabilities.

In standard configuration it will be build with 4GBs of DDR3 memory (upgradeable to a maximum of 8GBs), 500GB hard drive, onboard WiFi support, an optional Blu-ray drive, 7.1 Channel HD Audio with Creative X-FI technology, and built-in HDMI port. According to CyberPower press release computer will be fully customizable. In base configuration it have been priced to $995.

Thermaltake Element Q Mini ITX Case (VL52021N2E)

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:16:24 +0000

Pro-clockers have posted a review of nice looking stylish Mini-ITX case. It is Thermaltake Element Q Mini ITX Case (VL52021N2E). In size it is similar to most Mini-ITX cases, it measure 130 x 220 x 330 mm (5.12 x 8.66 x 13 inch) with weight of 2.7 kg (5.95 lb). It have been equipped in one external 5.25” bay and one internal 3.5” (for your hdd).

On front panel you will find 2x USB 2.0 port and one HD-Audio. What is common in most new Mini-ITX cases you will find attached built-in 200W SFX PSU. Unfortunately it is Active PFC so it means that it won’t be 100% quiet. I can not say more that it is another typical small form factor, Mini-ITX chassis.

You may read full review at ProClockers.

Mini-ITX Pegatron IPX7A-ION/330 – not so passive

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:05:50 +0000

Thanks to iXBT Labs we have one more mini motherboard review. This time it is another ION based motherboard. This Mini-ITX form factor mainboard have been produced by not so well known Pegatron. When you see their mini motherboard IPX7A-ION/330 for the first time, you may think it is some very nice looking passively cooled Mini-ITX little motherboard. But you are wrong!

I do not say that it is not nice looking… And when you see you may notice there are no any fans installed… Unfortunately this motherboard needs at least one case fan that may cool it’s two heatsinks. As reported by iXBT Labs if you do not use such fan (even in open case), the motherboard hangs and reboots every 20 minutes.

To get known more read full review by iXBT Labs.

Two mini Intel Pineview motherboards reviewed

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:18:45 +0000

Bit-Tech have written great review of two Intel Pineview Mini-ITX motherboars. In their article they have introduced Jetway NC96-410-LF (single core atom) and Jetway NC94-510-LF (Dual Core Atom). Intel Pineview have been longly awaited platform and now thanks to this review we can see it in action. Bit-tech have done performance test of memory, sata, usb, multitasking and video processing/editing.

For those than don’t know what is Pineview: it includes the new ‘Pine Trail’ CPU – one or two Atom cores, with an integrated memory controller and graphics core. This then connects via a standard DMI link to a new NM10 Southbridge. Where the first Atom platform just recycled the old 945GC chipset and ICH7 Southbridge, this new platform has been redesigned to be small and to reduce power consumption.

You may read a full review by bit-tech here.

ARBOR ITX-i45M2 powered by GM45/ICH9M chipset

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:54:52 +0000

ARBOR have informed in press release about their new low power Mini-ITX motherboard with powerful 3D graphic performance. ITX-i45M2 is built with Intel GM45/ICH9M chipset and supports the socket P Intel Core 2 Duo/Celeron M processors. This mini motherboard have been designed for applications such as medical device, digital signage, industrial control/automation, DVR, security/surveillance, gaming machine, visual inspection instruments, and other performance-driven high-end Video applications.

Motherboard fits Mini-ITX form factor so it is 170 x 170 mm. It supports up to 4GB system memory using two 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets, four SATAII ports with speed up to 3Gb/s, HD audio codec, and provides ample I/O interfaces including 2 serial ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports for peripheral connection, one PCI slot, one Mini PCI socket for flexible expansibility. With Intel® Gen 5 high performance integrated graphic controller for versatile dual display capabilities, ITX-i45M2 supports Analog RGB, LCD, TV-out and DVI. The ITX-i45M2 supports Intel iAMT 4.0 technology, which enables remote networking manageability (via dual Intel GbE LAN, 8-bit programmable GPIO, watchdog timer and even TPM 1.2) and offers the optimized system management capability.

For further information visit www.arbor.com.tw or contact with ARBOR representatives at: info@arbor.com.tw.

SilverStone Sugo SG05 Mini-ITX Case Reviewed

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:26:37 +0000

Last month there was quite a few new Mini-ITX case reviews. We have been already writing about SilverStone Sugo SG07, Coolermaster Elite 100, Antec ISK 300-150 & 310-150 & Norco ITX-7. Now it is time for another great case from SilverStone. It is Sugo SG05. This case looks to be quite big. But it need to be that because it can fit 2 expansion cards! Moreover, what is not so unusual, it can fit one slim optical drive, one 3.5” hdd, and one 2.5” hdd. Case is ventilated by a 120mm intake fan at 1200rpm.

On the front panel you will find USB2.0 port x 2, Audio x 1 & MIC x 1. Case is quite big like for Mini-ITX format (but it have reason to be) and it measure 222 mm (W) x 176 mm (H) x 276 mm (D) with a net weight of 3.52 kg. Case is equipped with power supply tuned by SilverStone – SFX 300W with 80 PLUS certification.

To find out more about this nice case and to see some bigger photos you may want to check full review by LegitReviews.

Case available at Amazon:
SilverStone SG05B Mini-ITX/DTX Motherboard Plastic Front Panel Case (Black)

DFI P55 MI-T36 Overclocking Tests

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:31:17 +0000

Everybody have heard than “big” DFI motherboards can easily be over clocked without stability looses. But what about so popular in last days Mini-ITX DFI P55 MI-T36? There were already some reviews of this motherboard in the web but it have not treated about overclocking as well. But it looks that we have an answer. Nebojsa Novakovic have tested this mini motherboard with Intel Xeon 3450 2.66GHz (default clock) and G.Skill ECO DDR3 memory able to run DDR3-1600 CL 7-8-7 at just 1.35V. To this little power house he have connected graphic card ATI HD 5870. What was the effect?

He has easily pushed the CPU clock to 3.2GHz by setting the BCLK to 160! This configuration have run all benchmarks without any stability looses! At full loaded average power consumption was about 110W to 120W. So the results are pretty good. It looks that Mini-ITX motherboard based computer dosen’t have to be weaker than its bigger brother.

Full article by Nebojsa Novakovic can be read here.

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