better than mITX ? mDTX

duniek · 19 Dec 2009 at 16:23

I just won bidding on famous polish auction portal

mobo is FOXCONN GL6E mini DTX board
I paid abour 30eur incl delivery

I think I get it directly after new year

I want to use it with asus 9400GS gpu (low profile of course) + maybe hi end asus xonar pci-e card powered nby picopsu 150W XT

Guardsmon · 19 Dec 2009 at 18:35

So that little bit longer than a mini-itx to allow for the additional expansion slot. Not a bad idea, though unless you are making custom cases like yourself it'll be damn hard to find a case for it.

Jokester · 19 Dec 2009 at 18:38

Sugo SG05 will take that, few others going about as well that are mITX, but actually have 2 slots.

Ducky Spud · 20 Dec 2009 at 12:07

Not bad, especially at that price! What socket is it? 775?

paradigm · 20 Dec 2009 at 19:04

Ducky Spud said:
Not bad, especially at that price! What socket is it? 775?

Yep 775. It's a bit of a wider form factor than mITX too, not just longer.

duniek · 20 Dec 2009 at 19:43

paradigm said:
Yep 775. It's a bit of a wider form factor than mITX too, not just longer.

wider? yap 3mm

ITX 170x170mm
DTX 190,5x173mm

Jokester · 20 Dec 2009 at 19:46

Isn't that 20.5mm wider?

duniek · 20 Dec 2009 at 20:27

Jokester said:
Isn't that 20.5mm wider?

depend whats you mean about wide
for me wide is from i/o ports to side of mobo (across for sockeet and ram)

so for me 3mm wider
20,5mm longer

Guardsmon · 20 Dec 2009 at 22:40

wow that 3 mm is a killer!

duniek · 21 Dec 2009 at 01:58

dtx is 14% bigger than itx

i had too much free time today lol

duniek · 4 Jan 2010 at 10:27

arrived

Jokester · 4 Jan 2010 at 10:34

I'm guessing you don't have the right connector for the power socket?

neil_g · 4 Jan 2010 at 10:36

sorry i might of missed it but, better how?

duniek · 4 Jan 2010 at 10:51

Jokester said:
I'm guessing you don't have the right connector for the power socket?

dont have yet, but i bought two already, I hope will be arrive in next week

neil_g said:
sorry i might of missed it but, better how?

bcoz cost me 4-5x less than 9300itx model and if you want use pci-e gpu will be no diffrence in performance

also you can plug good PCI-E gpu card + good pci-e x1 audio card
nd still case can be lot smaller than matx

neil_g · 4 Jan 2010 at 11:50

fair enough, i'll settle with HDMI (inc sound), DVI, VGA, PCI-E, Digital Coax and Optical on my mITX then

duniek · 19 Jan 2010 at 18:46

finally power adapter from Hongkong arrived today
and i fire it up

waso_dude · 20 Jan 2010 at 11:58

Rofl at that cooler. Over kill much

pcAnywhere · 20 Jan 2010 at 13:19

From memory, 100% copper coolers are actually worse at dispersing heat than copper and aluminium ones.

Copper is very good at absorbing heat but not as good as aluminium and losing heat; which is why cooler baseplates are copper but the fins are aluminium. Also copper is more expensive and weighs a load more.

But copper looks loverly

Hotwired · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:06

If that's the cooler you're installing it with you'd cry if you saw mine.

Stock Intel and I think I might have to go even smaller to a Silverstone Nitrogon (looks like stock but 36.5mm high).