Everything about Mini-ITX, HTPC, Media Center and so on…
ZOTAC have announced their ION2 based upgrade kits. What exactly is this and why can you want it? If you have bought Mini-ITX motherboard before ION was on the market you may now easily expand your computer. ZOTAC upgrade kit is nothing else than a ION2 GPU (GT218) based graphic card designed to fit to your Mini-ITX chassis.
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CyberPower have announced a new version of their compact LAN Mini H2o V2 PC. This mini-pc is packed with the latest Intel LGA 1156 Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs with P55 chipset and super-fast and smooth Direct X 11 graphics. They claim that it is one of the smallest and fastest Mini Computers on the world. For sure it can rival with many of full size desktop pc’s and it measures only 11.25 (L) x 8.75 (W) x 7 (H) inches and weighs under 10 pounds. It have been built with LAN gaming in mind.
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ARBOR have informed in press release about their new low power Mini-ITX motherboard with powerful 3D graphic performance. ITX-i45M2 is built with Intel GM45/ICH9M chipset and supports the socket P Intel Core 2 Duo/Celeron M processors. This mini motherboard have been designed for applications such as medical device, digital signage, industrial control/automation, DVR, security/surveillance, gaming machine, visual inspection instruments, and other performance-driven high-end Video applications.
We have received an email from NORCO about their new Mini-ITX Case. It is called ITX-7 and it looks pretty nice. It have been build with 1mm SECC Steel. What is really great there are 60w 12v DC adapter + DC to ATX board included! It is fanless and noisless (unfortunately the case isn’t). Anyway this case is looking very nice thanks of sliding open front cover with changeable front panel picture! It may be really good choice for small HTPC to put next to your TV.
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IEI Technology Corp. have announced their first Mini-ITX motherboard with Intel Active Management Technology. This mini motherboard is build with 32 nm Intel® Core(TM) i7/i5 processors, KINO-QM57A features Mobile Intel® QM57 Express chipset for optimized playback and transmission of video for digital signage, surveillance, security monitoring, and public infotainment. Intel Active Management Technology 6.0 enables remote control and monitoring over network.
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First Open-PC computer created by community will be available for sale at the end of February 2010. If you have not heard about this project before here is their motto “Open-PC is a PC for everyday use built by the Linux community for the Linux community”. This news would not be published on this website if it would not be related to Mini-ITX form factor.
Asrock have presented their new mini motherboard powered by Intel® Atom 330 Dual Core processor. Motherboard is based on NVIDIA’s ION that can support Full HD media playback. A330ION is featuring dual channel DDR3 1066 memory support, 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot and Gigabit Ethernet.
What is so special in this mini motherboard? It is first motherboard with NVIDIA® MCP7A-ION chipset and DDR3 memory support! Other ION based constructions can support only DDR2. We will still have to wait for some benchmarks to get to know what this motherboard is really worth. But it is looking really promising!
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NORCO have anounced their Embedded BOX PC BIS-6591. It is based on Intel Atom™ N270 and 945GSE/ICH7-M mobile chipset. It is low power and totally fanless computer. What is unique for such computers and chassis are two PCI slots! Available interfaces are two video output (DVI and VGA), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), two SATA ports ,two COM ports and two USB2.0.
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During CES 2010 SilverStone has presented a prototype of their new SG07 Mini-ITX chassis. What is most interesting in it is that it can fit the 12.2″ (309mm) ATI Radeon 5970 card and a custom & single-rail 600w power supply. This chassis measure only 222mm x 190mm x 350mm. So it looks that it is really well designed.
ASUS have presented on CES 2010 their new Pine Trail based Mini-ITX motherboard. It is dedicated for nettops and have been called AT5NM10-I. It is powered by one of Intel’s new Atom D510 processors and supporting NM10 chipset.
This motherboard supports up to 4GB RAM (one channel and two slots). It is equipped with one PCI slot 6 channel audio, 10/100 Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports (and four via headers), D-Sub for display, serial and parallel ports, a PS/2 port and two SATA 3Gbps ports.
