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I'm looking to make a similar build myself. Essentially I want the smallest, most well ventilated case I can find that has provision for an expansion card. HTPC-ITX7 looks good, but significantly larger than the Travla C292 which would be preferable I have no need for an optical drive. The...

UK buyer here looking to replace a dead motherboard. Don't mind which brand so much, but I do require six DDR3 slots. Can anyone help?

Thanks for that - now I just need to find someone who'll ship the Travla to the UK without charging me $130 in shipping!

Either this one or this one. They should be relatively cool. Yeah, I was meaning to ask about HSF recommendations. I take it the stock Intel job won't do?

Thanks for that - it is worth of consideration. On the CPU front, we have the Core i5 3470T which is a 2.9GHz dual core part (so not sure why it's an i5 in the desktop space) that draws just 35w, and the 45w 3770t 2.5GHz quad... they are pricey though - how would an undervolted 65w part stack...

That's really useful, thanks! Surprising there are no mITX cases with touchscreens though. Are there any "clip-on" LCDs or anything similar that can help to make a more portable unit? Also with regards the Travla case, would I require a better HSF than the Intel one? Is it "safe" to use a 77w...

With a 65w CPU that shouldn't be a problem. I ran two HDDs and an E8400 in a Shuttle D10 with a 100W PSU. Speaking of the D10, you wouldn't know of any mini-ITX cases with a 7-inch or so touchscreen? Or even an all-in-one with a PCIe slot? These are all options...

Hi, I'm looking to integrate a PCIe x1 or x4 expansion card into as small a PC as possible without having to do extravagant mods (back in the day I actually connected a PCIe x1 card to a Merom Mac Mini via its WiFi port and it actually worked). I can work with half-height but ideally I'd like...

It is half-height and internal.

Thanks, motherboard recommendation in particular is very helpful.

Any more thoughts on an actual set of build components that could do what I want it to do? I was thinking I could build something like this...

It's a general purpose PC with a video capture card. I can buy parts from anywhere in the UK, but the usual "best places" are Amazon.co.uk, Ebuyer.com and Scan.com. It was mostly be used in an office environment. No additional peripherals needed over keyboard and mouse but USB 3.0 ports might...

Let's go for the i3 and the budget mobo - as long as it can handle a non-GPU expansion card in the PCIe slot.

Well, I get the idea that the requirements are going to define the budget as there are only a limited number of components that will do this specific job?

Hi, I'm looking to build a tight, compact mini ITX system with the following requirements: * As small as possible * Cheap but durable, it'll be ported about a fair bit * Core i3 or i5 processor * RAM not especially important - 2GB min * Room for low profile expansion card (not a GPU)...

Still running an s3400t here with the quad core 2.5GHz CPU - has never let me down, until now, when the NVIDIA 8400 died horribly a week back, leading to a humiliating drop down to the integrated GeForce 7100. We're in the 28nm era - are there are low power, low profile GPUs that don't...

Bandwidth for 720p60 video from an uncompressed source is 2.6MB per frame. You can usually compress that losslessly with a Huffman-derived codec with about 2:1 to 3:1 compression efficiency. So yes, about 200 to 300GB per hour. I'm not talking about h.264 movie playback.

Very interesting!

SSD won't cut it because an hour's worth of HD capture will be 200-300GB. I guess all I'm looking for is an ultrabook that supports mSATA drives you can boot from and has a conventional drive bay - like the Acer Timeline Ultra M3 does. I took a look at the Lenovo Thinkpad 430 and aside...

Thanks everyone for your input. The Acer I was loaned had a 20GB SSD, with 16GB for caching and 4GB reserved for the hibernation partition. It was OK and reasonably fast, but nowhere near as fast as a native SSD system - so for that reason I'm not so keen on the Asus. The X1 looks...

For four years I've been using a Dell XPS M1330, and I've made a number of upgrades - CPU upgrade from 1.5GHz dual core to a 2.1GHz dual core, 512MB to 4GB and I've ripped out the optical drive to add a 500GB mechnical drive and put a 256GB SSD into the main HDD slot. The screen on this thing is...

No one can offer any help?

Hi, Visiting San Francisco next month, and rather than getting bummed heavily by the hotels for internet access, I'd like to buy a pay as you go SIM for my laptop. Last time I was in the USA in October 08, the best deal I could find was 5mb data as part of a $9.99 SIM (!!). Are there...

Are there any kind of benchmarks on read/write performance? How does the drive compare speed-wise to a Samsung F3 1TB?

I'm assuming that these new GPUs will be like GMA950 and 4500 and will have no hardware overlay support? One of my apps uses it extensively, and it runs like a dog using Intel integrated graphics of any persuasion due to a software driver being used instead of a true hardware overlay.

Hi, I'm looking to build a mITX system with either socket 775 quad core or one of the new Clarkdale set-ups. I'm looking for the smallest possible set-up, factoring in that I will be using one or two SSDs (no bulky desktop drives required). An optical drive is not necessary. The only...

With video editing and encoding, the i7 totally annihilates Core 2 Quad, certainly in my experience any way: x264 encoding for starters shows a night and day difference. I doubt you'll see much with gameplay however.

The USB dongles I've tried have pathetic range, and the room I currently have the s3400t in requires the use of a BIG antenna to get a decent signal. If there's a cheapo USB dongle that'll let me connect up my big antenna, that's great, but I've yet to find out. Do you have any suggestions...

Can any one suggest a WiFi solution for my s3400t? It doesn't appear to have it built-in. A low profile bracket with a conventional WiFi antenna socket would be VERY useful...

I'd like to add WiFi to my s3400t. However, it'll need a standard antenna output to connect to my large antenna as the PC is in a remote corner of the house. USB dongles are woefully inadequate. What's the standard s3400t wifi solution? Are there any PCI-E x1 WiFi cards I can buy that can go...

Will this PSU fit into an s3400t?

It's difficult to keep up with this thread. Would I be right in assuming that a Slimline 3400t with Q9300 couldn't run a 9600GT LP LP on the stock PSU?

PM sent, hope this is still for sale.

Ack, don't remind me. I used to build systems around s939, but very quickly the best CPUs (4400, 4800) disappeared from retailers and it was a nightmare to get them.

Can you guys confirm that the 9600GT LPLP is the same as the 9600GT 'Green'? http://www.tronixcomputers.com/galaxy-9600gt-512mb-ddr3-lprofile-green-hdmi-graphics-card-p-986.html?m1track=googlebase Wow, finally, a specialist part for the Slimline that's available in the UK!

A quick Google came up with this. As I have seven free bays, I should be able to mount two of these. http://www.xoxide.com/scythe-kama-bay-cooler-black.html Any other suggestions?

I'm really not happy with the airflow in my case and the only way I can see to improve the situation would be to remove the some of the 5.25" blanking plates and replace them with vents onto which fans could be attached. Can any one suggest products that could help me in my cause?

I've just bought a NZXT Whisper case and while it lives up to its quiet billing and massive internal space, I am finding that the distance between the eight-pin CPU power slot on the motherboard and the power supply (a Xigmatek 850w job), is about 1-2 inches too short for the supplied cable (it...

Looking for a decently priced Conroe or Kentsfield (1066MHz only) to slot into an early C2D motherboard. Buyer must be willing to ship to the UK... global EMS is dirt cheap for a tiny item like this. HSF not required. Can any one help?

Narrowed down the choice to the 300 or the CM690. Can any one weigh in with the pros and cons of each? The latter is marginally more expensive, but I could afford either.