Hi
I'm hopefully going to be building a new rig in the near future (intel quads
) but rather than throw the 754 based old one away was hoping to recycle it as a familly PC. Now am I being stupid for buying a SFF over a mATX case and a motherboard? The issues I see are small PSU and no real upgrade potential. I mean there is a PCI and a PCI-E 16X expansion slot but am I going to be able to run a halfway decent GFX card on a 220 psu with 2 hard drives, a DVD drive and a PCI Wi-Fi thats if I can find one that'll fit in 
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The specs I can find (the us biostar web site isn't loading) on the N1 are:
Biostar IDEQ N1
Audio Realtek ALC655
Audio output 5.1-Channel Audio
Chipsets NVIDIA GeFroce 6100 + nFORCE 410
Dimensions 215mm (W) x 355mm (D) x 185mm (H)
Graphics Integrated GeForce 6100
Ide Accommodates up to 2 x IDE devices, Ultra DMA
33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode
Memory 2 x DDR400 slots, Up to 2GB in total system memory
Power supply Internal 220Watt Passive
Sata support 2 x SATA 3Gb/s devices (with RAID)
SO I guess the question is this biostar, a shuttle, or self build? Since this is more a recycling project I want to keep costs to a minimum.
I'm hopefully going to be building a new rig in the near future (intel quads
) but rather than throw the 754 based old one away was hoping to recycle it as a familly PC. Now am I being stupid for buying a SFF over a mATX case and a motherboard? The issues I see are small PSU and no real upgrade potential. I mean there is a PCI and a PCI-E 16X expansion slot but am I going to be able to run a halfway decent GFX card on a 220 psu with 2 hard drives, a DVD drive and a PCI Wi-Fi thats if I can find one that'll fit in . The specs I can find (the us biostar web site isn't loading) on the N1 are:
Biostar IDEQ N1
Audio Realtek ALC655
Audio output 5.1-Channel Audio
Chipsets NVIDIA GeFroce 6100 + nFORCE 410
Dimensions 215mm (W) x 355mm (D) x 185mm (H)
Graphics Integrated GeForce 6100
Ide Accommodates up to 2 x IDE devices, Ultra DMA
33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode
Memory 2 x DDR400 slots, Up to 2GB in total system memory
Power supply Internal 220Watt Passive
Sata support 2 x SATA 3Gb/s devices (with RAID)
SO I guess the question is this biostar, a shuttle, or self build? Since this is more a recycling project I want to keep costs to a minimum.
