Looking at build a trinity based m-itx system

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Urgannagru

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As the title says I'm looking at building an m-itx system at some point this year to use as a general entertainment system ie Htpc use and light gaming. Liking the idea of using a VESA mountable case as I move about a lot and also like keeping cables to a minimum.
The Jou Jye NU-526i looks ideal for my needs as I can use an SSD for programs and still have a media storage drive and an optical, just wondering if anyone has any experience with this case as I'm worried about high temperatures in a small case.

Talking about temperatures I've heard the present M-itx boards have had a lot of issues with overheating VPMs, just wondering if anyones heard any progress on the Zotac board, seen short reviews of it in December but heard nowt since. Just wondering if my google-fu skills are failing me and someones started selling them, as the built in Wifi would be a huge help.

Finally any recommendations on a low profile TV card? Again I've heard some of them can run hot so if there are any that have a slightly better reputation (and ideally a dual tuner) I'd be grareful to know.

Thanks :)
 
The VRM issues were confined to just the Asrock A75 ITX board. And there have been a lot of problems with it - one to avoid.

There are AFAIK only two other FM2 ITX boards currently available; the MSI FM2-A75IA-E53, which is supposed to be pretty decent (though lacks voltage adjustment capability), or the newly released AsRock FM2A85X-ITX, which has none of the heat problems of the A75 board, and seems to be the board of choice for FM2 ITX.

Gigabyte are due to release their ITX FM2 board shortly - should be sent out for tech review sites this month, they say, with retail availability in a month or two. Likely that it will cost more than the A85X Asrock board. I've not heard anything on other manufacturers' ITX FM2 offerings. Those Zotac ones seems to have vanished after review units were sent out.
 
I have the MSI and havent had any issues. Cant really play many games on it (FTL, Defcon etc are fine but TF2 and others are a little sluggish) though I think that is down to the 5700 more than the board. It is in a tiny case with the low profile tiny noctua heatsink too.
 
Cheers for the replies, good to know that the VRM problems are mainly with just the one board. Going to be a while till I can save enough pennies to do a build, so I'll probaly hold out for Richland and see what boards are around then.
 
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