Building a mini-itx PC

mitze90

mitze90

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Im going to be relegating my huge tower from my living room and into my spare room, so im looking at putting together a nice small and quite PC for the living room, basicly all it will be used for is streaming films and the internet.

This is the spec ive managed to piece together;

Zotac Ion Intel Atom N330 Mini-ITX DDR2 Motherboard (IONITX-A-B) £172.99
Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive Kit (SNV125-S2BD/64GB) £105.00
In-Win BM648 Mini-ITX Case - Black (120W PSU) £59.98
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Series (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
Samsung SN-S083C/BEBE 8x DVD±RW SATA Slimline Drive (Black) - OEM £25.99
Noctua NF-R8 80mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin £12.64
Total (in Tax): £418.96

It doesnt really need to be high spec as all it will be doing is...
  • Needs to be very quite.
  • Must have Ethernet for streaming.
  • Must be able to play back avi/divx and hd.

Couple of things im not sure about are...
  • Do i really need the DVD drive?
  • Could i ditch the SSD and use a USB pen to boot from?
  • Vista or XP, im lent more towards XP.
  • Is Atom the best option?
  • Would it be a lot cheaper to ditch the all-in-one mobo?
 
Oxy said:
Ion is hugely expensive for what it is. I was looking at a similar system to you but decided that the huge price increase of any nano-itx system was too much when compared to pricing of micro-atx parts.

In the end I went with an Asus AMD 8200 micro-atx board, a AM3 Semrpon 140 Single core at 2.7Ghz.

I already had the case, HDD, blu-ray/HD-DVD rom laying around.

Micro-atx is a lot more cost effective over mini-itx.
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Hmmm, interesting, i'll look into micro atx.

Edit: Once you start looking at alternatives things get even more complex, i could bin the 2nd system idea and just grab a HDMI graphics card and a 30metre HDMI cable lol
 
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