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tony.silveira:

man, i know i've been posting a lot, forgot just how much i love this hobby...

besides the full size machine that is in the planning stages, i have a second project in mind, sort of a mini-cade, but not really.  it's to soon to let the cat out of the bag but i am starting to think of what will be needed.  i was going to use an extra pc i have laying around but they are old and the boards would make the project larger than i wanted.

so, anyone have any experience with micro-atx, a.k.a itx systems?  i still have a ton of research to do but would something like this be powerful enough to run most of the games in current mame?

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=itx&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvnsrzl&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1285&bih=879&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9182398935229451915&sa=X&ei=Eaq9T9SJI4XgiAKRpvj0AQ&ved=0CKUCEPMCMAM#ps-sellers

FALSE:

I use an older mini-itx board with an atom processor for a car pc.
It's got a 1.6ghz atom processor, a gig of ram, and onboard video.
I tinkered with mame for a bit on it (not a lot) but it ran most all the games I tested.  
Obviously it couldn't run newer 3d games.

Just guessing cause I have no direct experience with the board you linked to...
But I think it should run pretty much all of mame no problem.
Drop an i3 processor in it and 4 or even better 8 gig of ram.
Throw a cheap vid card in it for good measure and your playing diablo 3 : )

Samstag:

My cabinet runs on a really old ITX board but I don't play anything beyond mid-90's.

ed12:

hi
a little of off your question
but we use them in our wireless routing eq.
they work flaylessly
and are as fast as all get out
with them we boosted our through put
just letting u know my exp with them board's

ed

BobA:

I use fairly new mini ITX boards and they just get better and better.  For 90 percent of the games in MAME a dual core intel atom processors do well but now that newer boards are available an I3 based board is really fast.

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