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    good, small, powerful mini-itx case (non-black)

    Wow, very impressed with the recommendations. Appreciated. Yes, small volume is desired rather than footprint. Let me summarize the suggestions as I see them: The Fractal Design Node 304 mentioned was my fallback idea if nothing better was found. The SENTRY and A4 are great but not out yet as...
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    good, small, powerful mini-itx case (non-black)

    I have looked through newegg's cases for mini-itx and they are huge! It's disappointing they are even bigger than my SG01 micro-atx i have used for 10 years now. I was hoping for something smaller. Are there any good cases that fit these minimum parameters: (1) compact size (2) accommodates...
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    Silverstone SG08 @ Computex

    Agreed. A lot of us find black boxes that have been in vogue for the last 15 years ugly. It's like we are in a time warp like back in 1918 again when Henry Ford said about the model T "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black".
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    New Silverstone PS07 mATX

    never mind, wrong thread.
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    P67/Z68 ITX: what the manufacturers say

    I think most people nowadays want USB3 & SATA 6g and it's been mentioned several times in this thread, yet none of these mobo's are true to this form. Instead the manufacturers for now are just gluing a few of those on for show to fool the masses and are otherwise older standard USB2 & SATA 3g...
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    Wait for ivy bridge

    Intel has hinted for some time about revolutionary technology coming with Ivy Bridge. Today they released details of what they are doing: 3-D Tri-Gate Technology for 22nm Ivy Bridge So that's where the dramatic performance increases and power consumption decreases are coming from. In itself, a...
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    Wait for ivy bridge

    Let me tell two tales: I currently have a SG01 with E6600 that I have been running for years. It's been a good system and does well even with most of todays latest software titles and devices. I feel like I got in at a good time with the right CPU, case, and fittings. And this was no...
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    Wait for ivy bridge

    Yawn. This has nothing to do with waiting for the next thing or the next thing or the next thing blah blah blah. I thought I spelled that out clearly in the initial post which was intended to ward off the usual stupid regurgitation of that old response, but it didn't work. So let's recap this...
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    Wait for ivy bridge

    I am mainly looking at mini-ITX socket 1155.Sandy bridge is a nice processor line, but todays motherboard offerings have too many weaknesses. By the time all of todays mobo issues are worked out it will time for the ivy bridge 22nm dye shrink that will give a 20% performance boost. USB3 will be...
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    mini-ITX + Sandy Bridge builds thread. What's your build looking like?

    My build is on hold. The motherboards just aren't good enough yet. By the time they address the weaknesses also meaning eliminating the stupid usb 2 ports off the back panel, it will probably be time to go for the ivy bridge 22nm die shrink instead of SB.
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    Any Sandy Bridge m-ITX coming? Any news?

    Zotac spec says "Support up to 16GB memory". That's interesting. Does it mean 2x8GB dimm's are on the way?
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    Any Sandy Bridge m-ITX coming? Any news?

    I don't understand why manufacturers seem to think ITX needs inferior chipsets, inferior bios, inferior overclocking, inferior power supplies, and so on. Yeah that may fit the HTPC niche, but it seems to me the mainstream ITX builder wants the exact same powerful system found in a normal tower...
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    Lian Li PC-Q09FB.. so close

    Not perfect at all! Insufficient power, insufficient graphics space, insufficient cooling. So what's wrong with the Lian Li Q11? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112297&cm_re=q11-_-11-112-297-_-Product
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    Any Sandy Bridge m-ITX coming? Any news?

    Just keep in mind only 2 of those ports are SATA 6g. Similarly only 2 of the USB ports on the back panel are USB 3. The thing I like about zotac though is the expansion card slot currently occupied by wifi. That could be very useful for itx which is otherwise very limited on expansion possibilities.
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    Any Sandy Bridge m-ITX coming? Any news?

    It appears every single mini-itx sandy bridge motherboard of this coming generation will be a hodge podge of USB2 with only a few USB3 ports. I don't want USB2 ports on the back panel or to be forced to use USB2 internally or on the front panel. That's a pretty glaring deficiency for a...
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