building a mini-itx system

jhewer

jhewer

jhewer

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Hi,

I posted a thread the other day about building a small file server. I think I've decided to go for a mini-itx based system for the low power consumption and noise.

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Firstly, I've been looking at a Mini ITX retailer and I'm considering the following boards:

Jetway J7F2 1.5GHz C7D Mini-ITX Motherboard (about 80 plus VAT)
EPIA CN 13000G C7 Mini-ITX Board (about 100 plus VAT)

The Jetway seem to be cheaper than the VIA ones, are they as good/reliable?

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Also, I'd want to get a bigger case that the Mini ITX ones. I'm planning on having a CDrom, a IDE hard drive (which I have spare) for the OS and a SATA drive as the main data store.

If I pick up any micro ATX case will it take the mini ITX board, or is this something I need to check carefully about?

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Lastly, power supplies. I'd be driving a CDrom and two hard drives, so the 50W external power supplies won't be enough. I guess I'm after a low power, and preferably silent, internal PSU (assuming I can get a micro ATX case) - any suggestions?

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Thanks for your help,
Jon
 
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Would the picoPSU 120W silent power supply do the job?

Edit: altough by the time I've bought the adapter this is going to cost quite a bit, perhaps just a quiet 200-250W PSU would be better?
 
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well the mini ITX boards use on average 15/20W, which is considerably lower than anything else isn't it?

also, a review over at silentpcreview showed that a Sempron 3400+ system only just out performed a mini ITX with 1.5ghz C7 cpu...
 
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yeah. however, my priorities are a low running cost rather than upgradability. i'm just going to run this as a fileserver, possibly a personal web server, and to stream music from (i'll stick on freevo probably) - things like that. i have a dvd player which will handle divx, so i don't really need it to movies.

it'll be on the majority of the time, so the low power and low noise factors are a priority.

thanks
 
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