Mini-ITX advice

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Stumbled across a good deal ($20) on a Raijintek Metis plus case and need advice on the weird world of mini-ITX.

Plan on using this build for a basic inexpensive home PC for my wife, probably with a good Pentium CPU or Perhaps an APU if the new AMD chips are good. I will likely use a Linux distro of some sort to save money and to keep the system malware resistant so my non-computer savvy wife can do our online banking and bill pay on it without me worrying she's going to get a virus every time she logs on.

What are good M-ITX motherboards that fit the reliable/inexpensive criteria?
 
ITX's other "hidden" costs will eat any savings on the case usually.

That being said asrock tends to have a couple minimal-fluff models with each generation.
 
Aluminum said:
ITX's other "hidden" costs will eat any savings on the case usually.

That being said asrock tends to have a couple minimal-fluff models with each generation.
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what costs? appears fairly strait forward, the case accepts ATX PSU's plus a cheap SSD and other normal components. the MB seems to be the only "odd" item after the case.
 
My last two builds were ITX and that's probably all I build in the future and I'm not really sure what that ITX tax is, TBH. Honestly, for just a build for your wife, a $75-85 Asrock H270 based board should suffice. Do you have a need for built in Wifi?
 
criccio said:
My last two builds were ITX and that's probably all I build in the future and I'm not really sure what that ITX tax is, TBH. Honestly, for just a build for your wife, a $75-85 Asrock H270 based board should suffice. Do you have a need for built in Wifi?
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its not a deal breaker if it doesn't have it, but would be nice.
 
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