I am thinking of building a small rig that I can easiely carry around to friends house and things. Its doesn't have to be anythign super powerful and I would like to keep the cost down. I have seen the Shuttle barebones but don't really want to spend to much.
So any ideas on Cases etc.
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can't you just get like an aluminum case mid tower...would be light and not that huge
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Yah. If performance is not too important and you want REALLY small than you can get one of these:
It is a real computer. You can pick up the barebones system at Directron for about $370. It's not too bad of a price considering you get a case, power supply, motherboard (i810 chipset), CD-ROM, integrated sound, modem, network, video, 2 USB, infrared, (for connecting to PDAs and such) and all the regular ports (key board, mouse, printer...). You just add laptop hard drive and memory, a Celeron or PIII (up to 133MHz bus, but not the .13 micron Tulitin cores). Add whatever OS and software you want and your good to go.
A nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo (but not the mini keyboard they used in the picture above) and a 15 LCD with speaker built in would top it off nicely. Directron had the parts to finish it off, but they charge quite a bit for them ,but still I was able to add 128MBH SDRAM, 20GB hard drive, and a PIII 733Mhz CPU and total just over $600. That is not too bad for a computer slightly thicker than a portable CD player. You could easily get the other parts elsewher, like a Celeron 900Mhz ($50), 128MB SDRAM ($20), and a 20GB hard drive ($90). This would set the system at about $530 or so. They also have a version with a CD-R/W for an extra $99. This is a FULL FUNCTIONING computer, just no room for expansion and crappy integrated 3D graphics.
Just think if they could make this with the nForce2 chipset instead and make it just a little bigger so you could use 2 sticks of DDR and at least one FireWire port. Just think of how handy this would be for editting you pictures off a digital camera or camcorder. You could also store some DVD with DivX and use it as a DVD player with the TV-out. It does not run off batteries. It has a seperate power supply that plugs into the wall. You could even get one of those 5" LCD displayes, some headphones, and a folding keyboard and laptop mouse it you wanted something REALLY SMALL.
Last edited by Todd a; September 22nd, 2002 at 08:48 AM.
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Originally posted by Todd a Yah. If performance is not too important and you want REALLY small than you can get one of these:
It is a real computer. You can pick up the barebones system at Directron for about $370. It's not too bad of a price considering you get a case, power supply, motherboard (i810 chipset), CD-ROM, integrated sound, modem, network, video, 2 USB, infrared, (for connecting to PDAs and such) and all the regular ports (key board, mouse, printer...). You just add laptop hard drive and memory, a Celeron or PIII (up to 133MHz bus, but not the .13 micron Tulitin cores). Add whatever OS and software you want and your good to go.
A nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo (but not the mini keyboard they used in the picture above) and a 15 LCD with speaker built in would top it off nicely. Directron had the parts to finish it off, but they charge quite a bit for them ,but still I was able to add 128MBH SDRAM, 20GB hard drive, and a PIII 733Mhz CPU and total just over $600. That is not too bad for a computer slightly thicker than a portable CD player. You could easily get the other parts elsewher, like a Celeron 900Mhz ($50), 128MB SDRAM ($20), and a 20GB hard drive ($90). This would set the system at about $530 or so. They also have a version with a CD-R/W for an extra $99. This is a FULL FUNCTIONING computer, just no room for expansion and crappy integrated 3D graphics.
Just think if they could make this with the nForce2 chipset instead and make it just a little bigger so you could use 2 sticks of DDR and at least one FireWire port. Just think of how handy this would be for editting you pictures off a digital camera or camcorder. You could also store some DVD with DivX and use it as a DVD player with the TV-out. It does not run off batteries. It has a seperate power supply that plugs into the wall. You could even get one of those 5" LCD displayes, some headphones, and a folding keyboard and laptop mouse it you wanted something REALLY SMALL.
They have these with a 815ep chipset too that are compatible with tualatins.
I would say the best option if you are going to OC with one of these, LOL. Would be to get a 1Ghz cel-t and up the FSB to 133fsb by means of the BSEL pins! Then knock the vcore down to ~1.3v! This could be achievable though easier now through the new tB1 stepping tualatins!
You could get one of those Desknote made my ECS. "ECS Desknote - supp. AMD Athlon XP 2200+, Up to 1Gb DDR PC2100 Memory, 8XDVD, XGA TFT-LCD; 64Mb DDR Video TV OUT IEEE1394/4USB(2.0);56K Modem with LAN & DVD Drive + ONLINE CONFIGURATOR. " It can be had for under $1000.
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Originally posted by Chegs I am thinking of building a small rig that I can easiely carry around to friends house and things. Its doesn't have to be anythign super powerful and I would like to keep the cost down. I have seen the Shuttle barebones but don't really want to spend to much.
So any ideas on Cases etc.
Just bought something similar for my sister's PC. Pretty small, not incredibly well-made but does the job. Put a handle on the top and it's very easy to carry round. We managed to put together an entire system including a 15" TFT monitor for her for £450.
I can think of many other suggestions but you said "keep the cost down".
MuFu.
P.S. Edit - had a little here about people not looking at the location of someone first before posting "this is X $'s here..." etc. Edited it out, because I don't grumble much and am not about to start right now. Guess I am just a *****, hehe...
Last edited by MuFu; September 23rd, 2002 at 06:51 AM.
http://www.microdirect.co.uk have a few mATX cases under £50 too. I'd double check with some of them - the one we got from ebuyer seems to be able to accomodate a full-sized ATX mobo. For a system I guess you'd be looking at something like...
mATX FCPGA2/Socket A mobo
Cel-T or Duron 1.2GHz@perhaps more
256MB PC133
Radeon 9000
etc...
You might be able to add an entry-level 15" TFT to that and keep the whole lot under £500, like I said. That would be pretty portable.
MuFu.
Last edited by MuFu; September 23rd, 2002 at 07:29 AM.
Thats just cool ol' man. They even added 2 FireWire ports and upped the max memory to 512MB. They got a FULLY loaded one at your link fo $1200. Admittedly that is a bit pricy, but it comes with a PIII 1.2Ghz, 512MB SDRAM, 40GB hard drive and a DVD/CD-R/W combo drive. I just wish it had a better graphics system.
nForce2 were are you?
This is not a REALY serious option unless you have some money to waste. A standard MicroATX or FlexATX aluminum case would do fine, but most of these have really small power supplies. Even a nice aluminum mid-tower would not be too bad.
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Originally posted by Todd a Thats just cool ol' man. They even added 2 FireWire ports and upped the max memory to 512MB. They got a FULLY loaded one at your link fo $1200. Admittedly that is a bit pricy, but it comes with a PIII 1.2Ghz, 512MB SDRAM, 40GB hard drive and a DVD/CD-R/W combo drive. I just wish it had a better graphics system.
nForce2 were are you?
This is not a REALY serious option unless you have some money to waste. A standard MicroATX or FlexATX aluminum case would do fine, but most of these have really small power supplies. Even a nice aluminum mid-tower would not be too bad.
They don't have it any more but you can buy a barebones setup direct from the main manufacturer of those cappuchino's I think and through your own components in it. That site used to have the 815e barebone for around $400. You supply HD, CPU, ram and cdrom I think! Not bad as you could easily pick all of them up for a really good price. I would through a 1GHz cel-t($50) in it and tinker with the BSEL pins to get a 1.33GHz chip out of it. Ram is minimal for sodimms. Pretty cheap if you know where to look and a 40gb HD is a bit OVERKILL! A 10~20gb would suffice for me! That would be at most another $350~$450 for the HD, ram,cd burner,CPU.
Have you considered the Shuttle SS51G? It's about as big as a shoebox and highly portable. It uses an Intel chipset, but they make a box for AMD. Here is a link:
Actually they make a pretty good box for Athlons. The P4 version is better and they have not released the Athlon version with the AGP slot. That should be coming soon. The new heatpipe and case cooling they use should work just fine for an AthlonXP 2600+, but I really wouldn't recommend the old version for the Athlons because the heatsink lacked the heatpipe and the case was cooled with a 60mm fan. The new design uses a nice heatpipe to pull the heat off the heatsink to a radiator tipe heatsink on the back of the case that uses an 80mm fan to cool the radiator and the case at the same time. This is MUCH better cooling.
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here about people not looking at the location of someone first before posting "this is X $'s here..." etc. Edited it out, because I don't grumble much and am not about to start right now. Guess I am just a *****, hehe... 
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