News - ZOTAC rolls out another Mini-ITX motherboard, the GeForce 8200-ITX WiFi

[HEXUS]

Looking for the perfect HTPC motherboard to accompany your AMD processor? ZOTAC thinks its GeForce 8200 ITX WiFi is it.

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[sawyen]

this is a very very interesting product.. very tempted to get it on a mod project for some sort of tiny media center...

Sad you won't be able to put Phenom on it.. at least the ones with decent speed..

[iworrall]

That shouldn't be so much of a problem anymore, as Nvidia's latest drivers make the GPU do most of the heavy lifting when decoding media streams.

[GoNz0]

so what could you go up to cpu wise without popping the caps ?

[MadduckUK]

a similar board from jetway goes up to 65w

[staffsMike]

I'm thinking the low power quads, the triples perhaps and brisbanes.

[Methanoid]

Yawn, another paper launch for a Zotac mini-ITX that never hits UK streets..... Anyone remember their S775 mobos? No, thought not...

[Shooty*]

I'd not heard of Itx until this article... are these any good for HTPCs?

Apart from, like, the heading of the article is "looking for a perfect htpc mobo" or something.

I mean, in reality.

[MadduckUK]

I'd not heard of Itx until this article... are these any good for HTPCs?

Apart from, like, the heading of the article is "looking for a perfect htpc mobo" or something.

I mean, in reality.

id be more inclined to get either:

a 780G chipsetted one - for its hardware decoding.

if i had no need for high definition playback an atom based board - for its low cost.

but mini-itx's in general are brilliant for htpc's as you can stash everything in a case that makes a shuttle look big and clunky

[Shooty*]

Which brings me neatly to my next question:
What do you use? A biscuit tin?

[DavidM]

Which brings me neatly to my next question:
What do you use? A biscuit tin?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=itx+case

[MadduckUK]

Which brings me neatly to my next question:
What do you use? A biscuit tin?

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/biscuittinpc/ if you like! they will go in just about anything.

as for actual cases, most of them are stupidly expensive. but:

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12082 something tiny that takes a 3.5"er

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=10292 something tiny that takes a 2.5"er

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(37992)...ktoptower.aspx something i may end up with, still very small but with quite a bit of room

http://www.xcase.co.uk/p/404991/chen...t-arrived.html the god of mini-itx cases and if i was ever crazy enough to drop nearly 200 on a case it would be that