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Building a "Mini-itx" Computer... some questions

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Jakobud:

I'll be interested to see what sort of benchmarks and game quality/speed you get with one of those boards.  I have always had my eye on them for the past couple years for Mame, but was always concerned with their lack of speed.  I dunno.

javeryh:

I was looking at the VIA EPIA Nehemiah M10000 - it runs at 1Ghz.  Isn't this enough to run most current mame games?  I am not sold on any one computer yet - I just want it to be small enough to fit inside my bartop cab...  It's going to be roughly 16"W x 15"D x 18"H... I'm having trouble finding a suitable monitor too... I feel like that is going to be the driving force behind the dimensions of the cab...

Witchboard:


--- Quote from: Jakobud on September 13, 2004, 08:58:35 pm ---I'll be interested to see what sort of benchmarks and game quality/speed you get with one of those boards.  I have always had my eye on them for the past couple years for Mame, but was always concerned with their lack of speed.  I dunno.

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I've built an HTPC with one and a desktop with another.  If you tell me what info you want it wouldn't be a problem to slap MAME on them and see.  I'm not a MAME guru, so if you give me some instructions I'll be happy to post the results.

Jakobud:


--- Quote from: javeryh on September 13, 2004, 10:48:46 pm ---I was looking at the VIA EPIA Nehemiah M10000 - it runs at 1Ghz.  Isn't this enough to run most current mame games?

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Hmmm well you will be able to run a lot of them.

They just came out with a MII-12000 epia.  1.2 ghz.  Take a look at that too.

Nephus:

this is pretty much a standard motherboard, it just has everything on board already, and you can't upgrade the processor since it's permanently attached.  Other than that, treat it eactly as you would any other computer that you were building.  I'm at a loss as to where you came up with some of your preconcieved notions about the mini-itx boards.  :-\

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