Mini ITX
With the highly integrated nature of PCs these days, the Mini-ITX form-factor has become a very viable option for high-performance gaming system. With plenty of motherboards available for both AMD and Intel's latest platforms, equipping an ITX system with a CPU is easy enough. But the small size of the form factor means that housing an ultra-wide flagship-level graphics card remains an issue. For this year's Computex trade show, Antec was showing off their solution to the problem of giant video cards: the Performance 1M case, a Mini-ITX case with a separate chamber just for a large video card. Antec's Performance 1M is a dual-chamber Mini-ITX chassis that splits off the video card from the rest of the system. The primary chamber houses a Mini-ITX...
EVGA Tease mini-ITX sized Z77
Followers of EVGA media man Jacob Freeman may have noticed something rather interesting from his Twitter feed and the EVGA Facebook page recently. If small is the size...
23 by Ian Cutress on 7/20/2012
BitFenix Prodigy Review: The Affordable Performable Mini-ITX
The mini-ITX form factor is starting to pick up steam these days, and with good reason. Micro-ATX boards are already capable of essentially hitting feature parity with full ATX...
79 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/1/2012
SilverStone FT03 Mini Review: We'll Make You Fun Size
One of the first cases we reviewed back when we initially established our case testing methodology last year was SilverStone's FT03, a very unique Micro-ATX design guaranteed to be...
67 by Dustin Sklavos on 5/22/2012
Puget Systems Echo: Intel and AMD Showdown at 65 Watts
Just about anyone can put together a solid computer using a decent midtower and the right parts. What we don't see as often is just how fast a computer...
62 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/21/2012
Alienware X51: The Xbox With Teeth
While Alienware isn't openly inviting comparisons to Microsoft's Xbox 360 with their brand new X51 gaming desktop, it's hard not to see the resemblance, at least in form factor...
59 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/17/2012
Lian Li PC-TU200: On the Road With Lian Li
More and more lately, mini-ITX boards are becoming very feature rich and users are needing fewer expansion cards in their desktop systems. Where once upon a time we'd need...
53 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/31/2011
Zotac Z68ITX-A-E Wifi Review - Mini-ITX meets Z68
With every chipset, there's a call to arms in providing the package that everyone needs. Unfortunately there's never one motherboard which can cater for every possibility, but there are...
29 by Ian Cutress on 9/22/2011
SilverStone Temjin TJ08-E: Fat Case in a Little Coat
While vendors have been all too happy to send us larger enclosures (and we've been all too happy to receive them), our coverage of Mini-ITX and Micro-ATX cases has...
47 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/4/2011
Small Form Factor Buyers’ Guide
Last month our builder’s guide focused on nettops: low power, less capable, physically diminutive desktop computer systems. We included a non-nettop CPU (Intel Core i3) system as a substantially...
71 by Zach Throckmorton on 5/25/2011
Nettop and Mini-ITX Buyer’s Guide
Most of our Buyer's Guides focus on full desktop builds, but what about something a little smaller? Perhaps you're looking for an inexpensive yet sufficiently powerful system to function...
101 by Zach Throckmorton on 4/22/2011
When You Want A Little Gaming: The AVADirect Nano Gaming Cube
Boutique gaming systems are usually big, fancy, ornate affairs. They're often totally extreme, marketed to the Mountain Dew set, with massive cases and bright lights. So what happens when...
42 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/16/2010
ZOTAC IONITX-P-E: Can Intel's CULV Processors Reinvigorate Interest in NVIDIA's ION?
NVIDIA’s ION brought a tremendous appeal to mini-ITX last year, but over the past six months Clarkdale has established itself as the natural and more capable choice for small...
42 by Rajinder Gill on 8/26/2010
Gigabyte H55N-USB3 : Mini-ITX done the Gigabyte way...
We’ve been waiting for one of the major players to get their mitts into mini-ITX for Intel’s chipsets and finally Gigabyte has delivered with the Intel H55 chipset based...
78 by Rajinder Gill on 6/15/2010
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