Anybody have any experience with building MicroATX systems?
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I want to build a comp that is small, so I decided to work with MicroATX technology instead of Mini-iTX. I found some motherboards on eBay, with that uses thePpentium Socket 370, but has no sound, and one that uses AMD Sockect A, but has no video. The video on the Pentium board is only a 1MB dynamic VGA, but I don't need much in the way of video capabilities anyways. Since this is going to a MicroATX comp, I need to buy low-profile cards. And CPU is kind of an issue, because I'm an AMD fan, but not so much. Should I go with the one that has onboard video (Pentium) or the one with onboard sound (AMD)? I was just tryign to figure out if it's more worth it to look for a low profile sound card or a low-profile video card? It's only going to be a small server-like PC (there's no real need for video otherwise), so should I just go for the one with video and dish out for a decent sound card? Or would it somehow make more sense to look for the video instead? I understand it may seem like I'm really answering my own questions, but I might be wrong and I don't know. Maybe somebody here knows more about MicroATX than what I can find.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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I want to build a comp that is small, so I decided to work with MicroATX technology instead of Mini-iTX. I found some motherboards on eBay, with that uses thePpentium Socket 370, but has no sound, and one that uses AMD Sockect A, but has no video. The video on the Pentium board is only a 1MB dynamic VGA, but I don't need much in the way of video capabilities anyways. Since this is going to a MicroATX comp, I need to buy low-profile cards. And CPU is kind of an issue, because I'm an AMD fan, but not so much. Should I go with the one that has onboard video (Pentium) or the one with onboard sound (AMD)? I was just tryign to figure out if it's more worth it to look for a low profile sound card or a low-profile video card? It's only going to be a small server-like PC (there's no real need for video otherwise), so should I just go for the one with video and dish out for a decent sound card? Or would it somehow make more sense to look for the video instead? I understand it may seem like I'm really answering my own questions, but I might be wrong and I don't know. Maybe somebody here knows more about MicroATX than what I can find.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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It's going to be an MP3 box, wirelessly networked and hooked up in my living room.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
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I want to build a comp that is small, so I decided to work with MicroATX technology instead of Mini-iTX. I found some motherboards on eBay, with that uses thePpentium Socket 370, but has no sound, and one that uses AMD Sockect A, but has no video. The video on the Pentium board is only a 1MB dynamic VGA, but I don't need much in the way of video capabilities anyways. Since this is going to a MicroATX comp, I need to buy low-profile cards. And CPU is kind of an issue, because I'm an AMD fan, but not so much. Should I go with the one that has onboard video (Pentium) or the one with onboard sound (AMD)? I was just tryign to figure out if it's more worth it to look for a low profile sound card or a low-profile video card? It's only going to be a small server-like PC (there's no real need for video otherwise), so should I just go for the one with video and dish out for a decent sound card? Or would it somehow make more sense to look for the video instead? I understand it may seem like I'm really answering my own questions, but I might be wrong and I don't know. Maybe somebody here knows more about MicroATX than what I can find.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com
I built a MicroATX system using an ASRock K7VM2 motherboard. It has on-board video, sound and LAN.
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I built a MicroATX system using an ASRock K7VM2 motherboard. It has on-board video, sound and LAN.
Hmmm... the only thing is I don't need something quite that good. I definately don't need LAN because it'll be wifi. I unfortunately don't need DDR. I guess I really forgot to mention it's not going to be high-end. But I've finally decided I'm going for this one I found that has both video and sound on it.
Who am I? Currently: A Programming Student trying to survive school with plan to go on to Univeristy of Advancing Technology to study game design. Main career interest include: Multimedia and game programming. Working on an outside project: A game for the GamePark32 (GP32) portable gaming console. My website: www.GP32US.com