Mini-ITX & HTPC Media Center Blog
Welcome to Mini Motherboard Blog! If you are looking for some interesting info about Mini-ITX motherboards, HTCP Media Centers, embedded pc, micro pc, small computers or even mini laptops - this website is for you! We publish all news, hardware reviews, tips & tricks that you may find really interesting and helpful in building your own mini, Full HD capable & fanless small form factor HTPC Media Center! If you have any info worth mentioning or some great hardware for a review please contact us!
If you want to build your own HTPC and you are still not sure about it’s components, you are in the right place. Nowadays when you build your own media center most probably you will demand from it at last these points:
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 
You may think that it is some crazy computer case mod – but you would be wrong! This chassis have been made by 
It looks that there will be more and more ION 2 powered nettops on the market soon. A few days back I have been writing about 
Big Bruins blog have posted a review of Intel D510MO Mini-ITX motherboard. This mini motherboard is powered with 1.66GHz dual core Intel Atom processor and is fanless – cooled with heatsink. They have tested it with SSD (solid state drive) and fanless Pico PSU so they got totally noiseless system! Motherboard is very easy to expand as it is build with two memory slots, two SATA ports, a PCI slot, a mini PCI Express connection, and a few of USB ports.
Zotac have announced their first mini computer powered by Mini-ITX motherboard with ION2 chipset onboard! That is wonderful news for all HTPC enthusiasts! ION2 is supposed to be even more powerful that first generation of ION (that is still the best solution for hardware encoding on Mini-ITX motherboards).
Sapphire have released a new IPC-AM3DD785G ITX motherboard with AMD socket AM3 stand. Their mini motherboard support DDR3 memory and AMD CPUs rated up to 65W TDP. This motherboard is in Mini-ITX small form factor – but it is not worse from most of “big” motherboard featuring dual DDR3 memory slots and a PCI-Express 16-lane expansion slot.
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.
Pro-clockers have posted a review of nice looking stylish Mini-ITX case. It is Thermaltake Element Q Mini ITX Case (VL52021N2E). In size it is similar to most Mini-ITX cases, it measure 130 x 220 x 330 mm (5.12 x 8.66 x 13 inch) with weight of 2.7 kg (5.95 lb). It have been equipped in one external 5.25” bay and one internal 3.5” (for your hdd).
Thanks to iXBT Labs we have one more mini motherboard review. This time it is another 
