Mini Itx Nintendo 64 LAN pc

JonJ678 said:
Going to be a very, very tight fit. mitx boards are 17 cm to a side and about 4cm tall, the outside of my N64 appears to be 17.5 x 22.5 x 4. I don't see any hope in hell of fitting a separate graphics card in there.

Sadly I don't think this is going to work. Inside an xbox, sure. An N64 is just too small for discrete graphics. However it could hold mitx board/ram/psu, run an N64 emulator with all your N64 games stored.

Sorry to be negative, but I'm looking at an N64, holding a rule and can't see it.
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Be more optimistic! I recon with a lot of effort this could work.
 
It will happen at the end of next month, first month of work in local Chinese - £288 a month

Help me spec this better, I'm sure many of you have experience with cooling issues

Since I already have the GPU I have £130...? help me splash out a bit guys
 
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Are you really just using this for folding? I'd be looking to use an ION board for this project and sell the 9600GT, I think you're going to find heat from the CPU, GPU and hdd might be a little too much for such as small enclosure.
You could try mount the GPU in the cartridge slot if you can bend the extension cable into position, then you can cut a side off for cooling.

You're going to need some air vents somewhere.

Possibly look at using a S/NES instead? (possibly Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, PS?) Just thinking N64 is a little tight fit.
 
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going for this since it can average 45 fps in L4D at 900x1400 - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-217-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=

Plus it fits

Made in sketch up to scale precisely

case, CPU plus heatsink and RAM
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Thinking. If the 775 cooler is very low height and you use a pci-e riser, you may just be able to fit the graphics card parallel to the motherboard. The ram will be in the way though, so perhaps it would have to be under the motherboard. I still can't see there being enough vertical height inside the chassis to use anything other than onboard graphics.

Heat is also a bigger issue with a graphics card. This isn't such an issue, as careful use of 40mm radiators can probably solve this. It'll put the cost up a fair bit though, a 775 ion board is probably the way to go.

edit: ahh mate, even I know that card's nasty. ddr2 is not what you want on a graphics card.
 
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I was considering going down that path, the shape makes it easier, but as this is going to be gaming/HTPC aesthetics do matter.

Dare I water cool this?
 
you will struggle massively to get the components in. nevermind watercooling

there is already a couple of snes mini itx systems about and even on that the mobo doesnt quite fit. and thats without a dedicated gfx card too
 
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