Matt's MiniITX Adventure

[martini161]

But the mITX board he had was the D945GCLF, and yours is the D945GCLF2, they wouldn't swap around the NB and CPU placement on the same series board.

Besides, the picture Zertz posted shows the dual core next to the bar-code serial label, if you look on the pics of your board, that puts the CPU under the little heatsink and not the big one.

Dan

[DMB2000uk]

Matt, that's totally worth a point in my sig

Dan

[dicecca112]

Quite nice! I wonder it one of these could handle some photoshopping tasks (severe doubt)

Finally got a copy of Windows XP (Working for MS helps )

Photoshop is slow but usuable. I'm using the box for an upcoming review. I bet 2Gs of memory would help, but only one DIMM can be used, and its gotta be ultralowprofile (ie half height)

I'll bench Atom Dual Core once I finish this review

[stopthekilling77]

Awesome! Thanks for the Photoshop consideration, Matt!

[hnzw_rui]

Hey, do you have power consumption values for your D945GCLF2 build? I'm planning on building a Mini-ITX PC and I wanted to know if the power supply (60W) with my targeted case (APEX MW-100) is up to the task. It'll be a fairly basic build:

APEX MW-100 w/ 60W PSU
Intel D945GCLF2
Kingston KVR667D2N5/1G
Seagate Momentus 5400.3 80GB
Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7590S-01 Slimline

Thanks!

[dicecca112]

You're fine. I was at load 40W. I have a 60W in mine as well. I'll have an upcoming review of this in the next couple months (or when work allows)

[hnzw_rui]

You're fine. I was at load 40W. I have a 60W in mine as well. I'll have an upcoming review of this in the next couple months (or when work allows)

Would you happen to remember start-up wattage? Also, can you post your system specs? Just want a point of comparison. Thanks!

[dicecca112]

specs are same as in the first post minus the via board, and around 31W

[hnzw_rui]

Cool. Thanks for the quick reply. Hopefully, using a 2.5" notebook drive wouldn't add significantly more power than SSD. I'll be taking the plunge now. Wish me luck!