Can anyone tell me of any suppliers of miniatx based boards and cases need something cheap. Around a 1.2Ghz with 512 ram a 20gb harddrive, 1/2 decent onboard graphics, just to run Firefox, mIRC and MSN. Just want a second rig as small as possible running while gameing on the new main rig as well.

For the new rig im thinking the following:

Shuttle SN25P Socket 939
BFG nVidia GForce 6700GT OC 256MB DDR3 PCI-E
A64 3200 Venice
Corsair TwinX 1GB DDR (2x512mb)
Maxtor DiamondMax SATA 300Gb 16Mb Cache
LG DVD/RW Dual Layer
m$ Wireless Optical Desktip v.3

Hows that looking? Comes out at Ã,£752

How about mini-ITX?

http://linitx.com/

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Ohh and thank you very much pet

Appreciate the linky

Quick question I dont know what im exactly looking for on that site tho Please help

All they are is very small-format motherboards, most of which have an embedded CPU, some of which dont. No socket 939 offerings though Tons of onboard stuff on each one, some are fanless too which is nice

Look here: http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=12_74

Id ignore the nano-itx boards for the moment - they are properly tiny but are a very new form-factor.

Then look at cases, Id suggest: http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=8_68&products_id=250
Smaller, still cheapish: http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=8_68&products_id=291
Dead sexy, expensive: http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=8_68&products_id=263

And see whatll fit in, i.e. 3.5" hard drive, slimline optical drive, comes with a PSU, etc...

Optical drives: http://linitx.com/index.php?cPath=59

Not too hard
Wish I had the money to spend on one - owned one for a little while but needed the money so had to sell it

Well just after onboard EVERYTHING

Small form is fine rather than nano. Just need space for one Hard Drive, preferably S-ATA or IDE and thats it

Are you sure your wanting mini-itx or micro-atx?

If you want a shuttle sized pc go for micro-atx youll have more expandability should you require it, and its the most common form factor out there.

Mini-itx is a case of embedded processors (VIA C series) or some rare intel ones, while they offer tiny footprints the performance of these machines do not compare to normal micro-atx form factor machines.

If you intend watching video on them you will need a mini-itx board with dedicated mpeg decoder on it as the onboard graphics on the lower end boards struggle with providing jitter free dvd playback. The boards are also very expensive.

On the plus side they are fairly unique, fit into tiny tiny cases (DJ Smilee has one in a NES case I believe), and are quite natty little things.

How about:

VIA EPIA 800 Mini-ITX Mainboard
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=12_74&products_id=21

Kingston Low Profile 256MB PC133 SDRAM
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?products_id=103

Cubid 3677 - Black Case
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=8_68&products_id=291

Generally just IRC, MSN, Surfing with Firefox etc

Very basic video playback ive got a T.V. hooked up to the main box for that really....

Think im going to get as I said above, will I need a PSU?

if you intend fitting it in a mini-itx case yeah youll probably need to go with a external brick supply. Bare in mind with 60 - 120w going through them they get warm. Dont put them behind a cupboard they are a fire risk, keep it where theres decentish airflow, and you can get to it easily. Ive seen melted bricks in the past and they were just from laptop chargers.

Correction...

The case comes with a psu + cable.

That case comes with a CPU plus power brick

Well ive got a shuttle at home with a p4 1.8ghz in but want something smaller that I can sit on top of the new shuttle so it can go between my two monitors...

looks to be the one then mate

Id be tempted to make one, and use it in uni. Just take the keyboard, monitor and mouse from the main machine. Hook up mine in its place.

Sub-Total: Ã,£131.87 for the lot ive got a few spair 40gb/80gb laptop hard drives as well that I could hook up via a PCI Card I guess as well, or just use a spair IDE Drive Ive got