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The Cubits were lovely cases. I never got round to buying one myself but I wish I had, however as I already have a G2 and P2 Shuttle too this is probably the reason why I never got one.
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Prudy. If I didn't require insane power I would consider getting one of those. My only worry is that it would run a little hot.
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That's a very nice case you have there. I haven't really thought about getting a case with a Pico PSU, but this has piqued my interest.
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When AMD releases their 45w Athlon II X4 quads it would be great for a build like this. Combine this with a decent IGP or a low power consumption graphics card and you could use Stream or CUDA too!! You could end up with a mini-ITX based build which would be cheap,have low power consumption and also be excellent for some light encoding too.
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simonw
That's a very nice case you have there. I haven't really thought about getting a case with a Pico PSU, but this has piqued my interest.
Ahh cheers for the comments guys, Simon just go carefull choosing compononents make sure you work out your power consumtion before buying anything, theres more to come i have a new build in progress based on the same case but something that uses alot less power and alot faster :cool:
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I still wish I hadn't sold my cubit 3. Had its faults - the trays made the drive noise much louder I think and it didn't have the best cooling but it is a lovely looking case. Would love to try it again with an SSD. FWIW I found the temps on my cubit (which was only running a P3 based mini ITX board with onboard GFX) much cooler if I mounted the fan outside the case pushing air into it rather than inside the case as an exhaust. YMMV of course as that's a totally different set up.
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Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
I just seen the price of the Hoojum Cubit. :surprised: :eek:
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Ice Tea
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez
I just seen the price of the Hoojum Cubit. :surprised: :eek:
I believe they sold as complete systems - IIRC nowhere sells the case right now, otherwise I'd have one myself :P
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I have seen the cases on Ebay a while back and they were a decent price too as I believe the company had gone bankrupt and it was a stock clearance.
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oo there something new i learn today, thought the xeons used differnt sockets
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noobieocer
oo there something new i learn today, thought the xeons used differnt sockets
normally they do but they have a few socket 775 chips out :)
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CAT-THE-FIFTH
I have seen the cases on Ebay a while back and they were a decent price too as I believe the company had gone bankrupt and it was a stock clearance.
Where on Ebay exactly please, I'm tempted by these cases, I think Scan did a clearance on them too a while ago, probably because of what you said with regards to the company going bankrupt.
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UseItNow
Where on Ebay exactly please, I'm tempted by these cases, I think Scan did a clearance on them too a while ago, probably because of what you said with regards to the company going bankrupt.
It was early last year I believe!!Sorry!! :(
Funnily enough the reason I did not buy one of their cases is the fact that until the last year or so most mini ITX motherboards were either very weak VIA based ones or very expensive Commell and Jetway motherboards. If the socket 775 and AM2 mini ITX based motherboards had been cheaper at the time I would have bought one of the Hoojum Cubit cases.
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UseItNow
Where on Ebay exactly please, I'm tempted by these cases, I think Scan did a clearance on them too a while ago, probably because of what you said with regards to the company going bankrupt.
Good luck with your search, I spent weeks hunting for some. Your best bet is daily searches on ebay I suppose. In the end I gave up and went with the Nexus Psile (got a good deal on one brand new off Ebay)
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look pretty good. how does it compare to SG05 in size? I'm looking for a smallest mini itx case which can hold an ATI 3850 in it.
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aileen
look pretty good. how does it compare to SG05 in size? I'm looking for a smallest mini itx case which can hold an ATI 3850 in it.
Cooling is pretty dire for the graphics card in the Cubit 3 and 5 cases so go for the SG05 instead. Also the company which made them went bankrupt ages ago so it is pretty hard to get hold of them now.
If you are looking for small cases check this website out:
http://linitx.com/
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Cor this takes me back to my cubit 3 gaming rig. It's a bit dated now but it was a stormer when I built it. It's possibly my favourite pc that I owned as it was soooo small yet very powerful.
I got the cubit on ebay from the seller mentioned above. It cost me less than £40 from memory. They are very hard to find, I get people asking to buy mine all the time (I no longer own it :) )
Mine was the black version:
http://www.gordyhand.co.uk/gallery/d...1/DSCF3421.JPG
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The motherboard must have cost a pretty penny!! Where did you buy it form??
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CAT-THE-FIFTH
The motherboard must have cost a pretty penny!! Where did you buy it form??
ICP-UK, it was expensive but ill regain my money with a 40w power consumption surfing the net :)
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I like the look of the PICO820:
http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?...&productId=408
http://blogs.sun.com/oslab/entry/intel_atom_pico_itx
It has a 1.6ghz Atom and US15W chipset which has the GMA500 integrated graphics. AFAIK the GMA500 has better video acceleration features than the GMA950.
It would go nicely with this case:
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12275
I like the look of the eBOX-530 too:
http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?...&productId=452
http://www.axiomtek.com/Download/Spe...530-820-fl.pdf
I wish that Nvidia had released the pico-ITX Ion prototype as a production model too!!
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/...idiavsmini.jpg
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CAT-THE-FIFTH
Thats amazingly small but the cost is just insane, if anything i want the Nvidia ION referance design pico itx PC shame its not in production its the ultimate MCE PC.
http://www.mini-itx.com/2009/02/04/n...ed-benchmarked
Edit: Nice ninja edit :P
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Breezey
Imagine having that box on top of the desk and someone saying: "what is that??"
You answer back: "that's my PC!!"
In fact I want want one of these UMPCs too:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/deskt...ix-gobook-mr-1
http://www.trustedreviews.com/laptop...Rugged-UMPC/p1
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CAT-THE-FIFTH
HOW MUCH ! :surprised:
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Breezey
HOW MUCH ! :surprised:
Not very cheap are they!! :lol: If I had loads of money I would get one of them as they would be ideal for travelling (just bung them in a rucksack with no case).
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Looking at the pic abpove i didnt relise that the Nvidia ION box was only just smaller than a mac mini shame thats £500 aswell although i wouldnt gain anything getting that from my current setup except smaller and quieter.
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Looks very cute. Thanks for sharing this!
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fedora
Looks very cute. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks, nice to be different pretty sure i was the only one with a Cubit at i37 the other 99% had Antec 900s lol
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breezey's build is far more interesting than all that super tiny but cant do anything crap anyway. i would certainly like a tidgy comp that could play anything fine. its like a custom games console or something
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MadduckUK
breezey's build is far more interesting than all that super tiny but cant do anything crap anyway. i would certainly like a tidgy comp that could play anything fine. its like a custom games console or something
Thanks, its pretty powerful imo heres the windows 7 experience index scores:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9193/50004537.jpg
Suprising how it thinks the hard drive is slow as its one of the fastest drives u can get :confused:.
