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FWIW, it's 1.5mm. The cases I use are 2mm and seem pretty tough. I guess that 25% reduction in thickness makes a big difference.

What, you don't like the Ruffles look? ;)

x4 with a 25W limit I believe. My comment though was meant more to clarify that for the mini case it'd be nice to have the opening for the IO shield in the back somehow accommodate either the regular or thin mini-ITX IO shield -- like maybe a blank you can screw in when using thin mini-ITX...

I guess I should clarify :). It'd be nice to be able to have a thin mini-ITX I/O plate option on the Ultra mini case for the new Gigabyte thin mini-ITX motherboards since they only have the thin mini-ITX I/O shield. Thin mini-ITX boards do have a PCI-e slot.

How about the Realan E-M5? This can be had in the USA.

I would say if you go that small make it thin mini-ITX. It would work well for the new Gigabyte thin mini-ITX motherboards. They only come with a thin mini-ITX I/O shield.

Here's the manufacturer's page (JONSBO) on that case: http://www.jonsbo.com/en/products_9_2.html

LOL. My post was deleted. I wasn't trying to sell one. I was offering to give one away. Oh well. Offer rescinded.

If you're going to MicroCenter, no doubt the i5-3570K or i3-3225 + mini-ITX motherboard $50 off package deal. Looks like the GA-Z77N-WIFI is available at your PA store. (Edit) Nevermind, neither has VT-d

I posted the spec and diagram above. Is it not visible? I do notice it does not have the 4-pin mini-plug hole size which is 10mm. I use a 13/32" drill bit when I create the mounting plates for these. The hole size for the screws really doesn't matter since it screws into the plug shown above...

I don't know how you'd test this but I have noticed different vent designs have different acoustics as the fan draws/blows air across them. Some are noisy, some are not. So -- whichever is the quietest is what I'd choose.

You can (and probably should) use an SFX PSU in these cases with a SFX-to-ATX adapter bracket. Some SFX PSUs like the FSP retail and the Silverstones even come with the bracket. You could also use a picoPSU in these cases with an adapter plate that mounts the jack and an optional 80mm fan.

They use a 12V 180W DC-DC power board that's the same idea as the picoPSU in that the 12V is coming from the AC adapter and it converts it into the 12V, 5V and 3.3V the PC needs except it's a board and is connected to the mobo with a wiring harness kinda like an ATX PSU but with a lot fewer...

I've built a few HTPCs based off Celeron 847 boards with HD2000 graphics and they do work very well as HTPCs with one notable exception which is the XBMC internal player (Eden or Frodo -- tried both) under Windows 7. DXVA mode gives you macroblocking and DXVA turned off shoots the CPU up to 90%...

Here you go:

If anyone is interested in getting these, just let me know. I already bring in the E-i7, E-i5, E-i3 and E-K3 but if there's enough interest I can get these too.

Two other important questions I always ask since some SFF cases have room for these and some do not. - Do you need to use a 3.5" hard drive - Do you need an expansion slot (like say for a wireless card or video card) This is probably implied in #5 but these two things make a huge...

Congratulations on hitting the goal! I am glad to have donated to such a worthy cause. Nothing is better than mini-ITX and aluminum! Not sure if you thought this far ahead but if you do go into production will you sell them independently or try to go through places like Amazon or Newegg? I...

Yep, that's the JONSBO V3.

I think you are on the right track. I've built a few A10-5700s in this case which is close to the same size. I use a 150W AC adapter and the stock cooler seems to be just fine. You'll definitely want to add a case fan if the ITX4 doesn't come with one. BTW, the ITX-4 is just a different version...

It's more that the seller isn't telling all. The brand is perfectly fine and the powerboard is fine but what the seller isn't saying is it requires two AC adapters input to get the 250W. If you look on the right side of the powerboard there are two 4-pin inputs. This is a common confusion with...

This case supports a picoPSU (up to 120W with the barrel jack) and will fit a Scythe Big Shuriken when the optical bay is removed. Not that you need a picoPSU since it comes with a 180W DC powerboard and several different choices of AC adapter from 60W - 150W depending on what you're...

I had a EA-380D in my Lian-Li PC-Q07 and I found it made airflow very difficult for the CPU. There was very little room between the blank side of the EA-380D and the CPU fan. Cable managment was also a nightmare. The cables on the EA-380D are very long for such a small case. It worked much...

Ah, this is the thread I should have posted these in. Here's some pictures of what I did to make a picoPSU work easier with a PC-Q07. First, I fashioned a ATX sized plate out of 3/32" ABS plastic. It's easy to drill but not so easy to cut. I am lucky I still have 10 fingers. Then I...

This is a picture from a Lian-Li PC-Q07 build that I did. This is the custom ATX PSU cover plate I built so I could use a picoPSU with the case. It gives me somewhere to plug in the external power jack and mount an 80mm fan too. The PC-Q07 doesn't have any case fans. I have a ASUS...

It was me that attempted to by the case from China to no avail. I got all my money back without issue. I am still disappointed though. I would have really liked to have tried it out. Besides getting it over here, the hard part about buying these cases from China is they are still really...