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12th November 2003, 22:11 | #1 |
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| Good miniATX solution? I was thinking about replacing my TV/DVD/Music/surfing PC (which is now a beast actually, 3.4ghz intel) with a noiseless miniatx solution. Do you guys this is worth it's money, or are there better solutions? Case: Light, great looking, comes with 180W PSU. 137 euro Motherboard (attach) EPIA-M10000: 1Ghz C3 1* ddr266 2* ata133 integrated vga, 6 channel audio, lan, etc Only thing missing (in my humble opinion) is sata. More than fast enough for divx, just enough for office use. 166 euro = ~300 euro Are there better looking / performing / more silent barebones for 300? It must be inaudible.
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12th November 2003, 22:13 | #2 |
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| C3? Does it perform enough for DivX? (didn't think so) |
12th November 2003, 22:30 | #3 |
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| yeah, it does. (if it wouldn't, they probably would less boards then there are fingers on my hand) |
12th November 2003, 22:30 | #4 |
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| The M-10000 is pretty good actually. High quality divx playback:
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12th November 2003, 22:31 | #5 |
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| Koensa offers me a shuttle + 2500+ for my p4c setup, Far more powerfull, but shuttles aren't quiet. :/
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12th November 2003, 22:34 | #6 |
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| watercool it no seriously, actually ... it is possible, and judging on your posts it doesn't have to be portable as much as silent |
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12th November 2003, 22:41 | #8 | |
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12th November 2003, 22:59 | #9 |
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| way to much overkill, but that SAF520 i reviewed was silent ... and i mean silent |
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| pop an 40 mm papst fan and it's quiete enough or buy a fanadapter 40mm=>60mm of Yeti, but i don't know wheter he has sold all the 24, and put the 60mm fan on 7V holy crap 24 ones edit: i'm gonna start a watercooling project for my shuttle very soon , but it's hard to get hold on a efficient small pump that's leak-free |
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