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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Antec have announced two new Mini-ITX cases ISK 300-150 & 310-150. ISK 300-150 is equipped with three drive bays (1 x 5.25″ slim optical bay and 2 x 2.5″ HDD bays), a quiet 80mm TriCool™ fan, and a stable 150-watt power supply and very nice elegant look. On front panel you will find 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x eSATA, Audio (AC97 and HDA compatible) In and Out. And here are photos:
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ProClockers have published a review of Coolermaster Elite 100 Mini-ITX computer case. It is great looking mini computer case ideal to use for HTPC system. It is small and elegant black case with nice big led blue power button. Moreover it is equipped with VESA mounting holes so it can be put in the back of your monitor or TV.
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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 This news would not be published on this website if it would not be related to Mini-ITX form factor.
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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.
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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.
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Now Zotac have joined new trend for Intel Core i3/i5 processors. They have presented new H55-based Mini-ITX motherboard. H55-ITX WiFi supports 32nm Core i3 and i5 CPU and up to 8GB DDR3 RAM.
It features a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, and six SATA II ports (one eSATA on the I/O panel). Moreover it is equipped with 802.11n wireless, gigabit Ethernet, ten USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port, 7.1-channel HD audio, optical S/PDIF output as well as DVI and HDMI outputs.
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