Does Not Exist, My Ideal mini-ITX Motherboard?

jedihobbitjedihobbit Central Virginia, USA New
edited May 2010 in Hardware
Haven't finished half my stuff, am supposedly cutting back, and now have a wild hair about mini-ITX.........


Anyway a big small case nut and started really liking the SG05 & SG06 cases and wondered about mini-ITX motherboards. So what I would like to find......
1. Takes AMD AM2+/AM3
2. 2 x full size DIMM slots
3. PCI-e X16
4. On board gpu is "what ever"



Cases....
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=SG05&area=usa


http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=SG06&area=usa

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Networking/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3059

    or...

    http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?leg=&psn=000102&pid=319

    Friendly advice: Don't write your posts in Microsoft Word or Open Office, then copy them onto Icrontic before posting. Doing that brings forward a whole ton of junk HTML that makes your posts completely unreadable to many people here on the forum. Copy your posts into notepad before copying them onto Icrontic, or write them directly in the post box. :)
  • jedihobbitjedihobbit Central Virginia, USA New
    edited May 2010
    Thrax wrote:
    Friendly advice: Don't write your posts in Microsoft Word ..........:)

    :respect: Was wondering what keeps happening as I usually do a long winded entry in word first because of needing spellcheck SOOOOOOO badly! :O

    Thanks for the info!! BTW have you ever played with the ITX format as I have been totally ignoring it as I thought it was an intel (atom) only format.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    I have no personal experience, but I do have some insight to provide. :)

    To begin, the ITX form factor was actually created by VIA! Secondly, the most feature-rich ITX motherboards are (hands down) based on Intel sockets, especially 1156. Several companies are making Intel-based ITX boards packed with features, but almost nobody is making modern AMD-based ITX boards.

    This is probably why you thought the ITX format was an Intel-only format. :)

    It's pretty clear you're set on AMD, but I just wanted to let you know that you'll have more options if you flipped to Intel. Even LGA775 mini-ITX boards will offer performance on par with AMD's AM3 products at similar prices.
  • jedihobbitjedihobbit Central Virginia, USA New
    edited May 2010
    Have been AMD from my beginning ('99 -'00) and have stayed for the "principle" of it (pro under dog) but it gets hard as there are some really supper looking and functioning mobos that are intel. :sad2:

    Right now if I ever do an intel system, this would be where it'll happen. :rolleyes2
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2010
    You might consider getting a Shuttle or some other proprietary barebones SFF machine.
  • jedihobbitjedihobbit Central Virginia, USA New
    edited May 2010
    drasnor wrote:
    You might consider getting a Shuttle or some other proprietary barebones SFF machine.

    Been building and modding mATX for a while now (started with a Chaintech 7NIL1 Skt A) so had a wild hair about mini-ITX and Silverstone.
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