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.

C3?
Does it perform enough for DivX?

(didn't think so)

yeah, it does. (if it wouldn't, they probably would less boards then there are fingers on my hand)

The M-10000 is pretty good actually.

High quality divx playback:

Koensa offers me a shuttle + 2500+ for my p4c setup, Far more powerfull, but shuttles aren't quiet. :/

watercool it :)

no seriously, actually ... it is possible, and judging on your posts it doesn't have to be portable as much as silent

Really? :grin:

Silent cooling on xp2500+ is possible (slk900 + low rpm papst), but the PSU is hard to get quiet. :/

way to much overkill, but that SAF520 i reviewed was silent ... and i mean silent

pop an 40 mm papst fan and it's quiete enough :D
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 :D

edit: i'm gonna start a watercooling project for my shuttle very soon :D, but it's hard to get hold on a efficient small pump that's leak-free :^D

I don't want to mod it to be honest. I don't have time to search for a silent 60mm and 40 > 60mm, and to mod it. Watercooling is too expensive (only eheim 1048 is truely silent in my humble opinion), and costs too much time if you want to to it perfectly.

Does anyone have any experience with VIA Epia + linux?

some reading stuff:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...highlight=epia
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...highlight=epia
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...highlight=epia
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...highlight=epia
...
Just do a search on that forum for EPIA: lost of results

thanks for the links!

EPIA is micro ATX, mini ATX is just a bit bigger.
asus and tyan have some nice mini ATX mobo's.
they accept normal P4's, with all advantages that brings :p