best cheapish itx board

jonnyp1993 · 27 Jun 2013 at 08:57

Hello.
Im new to mini itx systems and im building one as a new project.
I want to know what is the best board with cpu intergrated and gfx.
My budget for the board is around 50-60.

Im not after somthing super fast. But somthing thats quite and keeps cool.

Board cant be no bigger than 18cm x 18cm.
Any suggestions would be great

Jonnyp

InfiniteNoise · 27 Jun 2013 at 11:30

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-431-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2230

The only one I can find on OCUK.

I also saw one with Intel Atom CPU integrated somewhere.

jonnyp1993 · 27 Jun 2013 at 11:46

Idartalis said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-431-GI&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2230

The only one I can find on OCUK.

I also saw one with Intel Atom CPU integrated somewhere.

Looking at the read up it looks good. Has anyone got one of these ? Are they any good?
Or is it worth going for seperate mobo and cpu ?

silent · 27 Jun 2013 at 14:08

i am in the same boat as you. i wanna know too whether this fits the home media server box with potential gaming GPU added later.

ch3rub43l · 27 Jun 2013 at 15:02

silent said:
i am in the same boat as you. i wanna know too whether this fits the home media server box with potential gaming GPU added later.

No way of adding any graphics to this; It has one PCI slot only.

jonnyp1993 · 27 Jun 2013 at 20:57

ch3rub43l said:
No way of adding any graphics to this; It has one PCI slot only.

could get a PCI GPU

i used to have a GT610 1GB PCI that would play games at med settngs at 720

R088ieS86 · 29 Jun 2013 at 15:56

Decent for a home server.
If you want to game, go for an AMD Llano or Trinity build as the CPU and GPUs both have a lot more grunt to them

ZXSpectrum · 30 Jun 2013 at 15:34

jonnyp1993 said:
Looking at the read up it looks good. Has anyone got one of these ? Are they any good?
Or is it worth going for seperate mobo and cpu ?

I have one, works fantastic and really is a great buy for a htpc or Internet/office pc. I have tried it with openelec fusion build as well as windows 7 home premium. I fitted 2 sticks of 2gb ddr3 1333 and a small ssd. Both systems worked very well and the openelec build had no problems at all with the aeon nox skin or 1080p films. I even put xbmc on the w7 build and it worked great. Oh and I forgot the fan is very very quiet. Great bit if kit for the money... Unless you want to play games. If that's the case a trinity build can be had for about £75

silent · 30 Jun 2013 at 16:19

ZXSpectrum said:
I have one, works fantastic and really is a great buy for a htpc or Internet/office pc. I have tried it with openelec fusion build as well as windows 7 home premium. I fitted 2 sticks of 2gb ddr3 1333 and a small ssd. Both systems worked very well and the openelec build had no problems at all with the aeon nox skin or 1080p films. I even put xbmc on the w7 build and it worked great. Oh and I forgot the fan is very very quiet. Great bit if kit for the money... Unless you want to play games. If that's the case a trinity build can be had for about £75

good feedback, where can this be had for £75? i assume you mean mobo and cpu? i may want to game with mine.

ZXSpectrum · 4 Jul 2013 at 13:10

Sorry I had worked it out at about that with a Matx board not mitx.