MSI MS-7199 VIA C7.......mini ITX.

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:41 pm

Link. I wonder if anyone is using this board.....or has read any reviews of the thing. This looks like it will fit right in a new project I'm considering.

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:20 pm

Finding info on this board is difficult.....I did find one good review.....along with a bunch of good pictures. According to this review, this board should continue working ok, up to 100C. Pretty incredible. The power draw is slightly higher than I'd like......but ok. It also goes under the name of "Fuzzy CN700".

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:49 pm

wow, that looks like quite a nice board. I'm glad to see all the interest in mini-itx popping up all of a sudden, half a year ago it was nigh impossible to find anything on mini-itx on SPCR.

I'm on a tight budget right now, so doubt I'll be working on my mini-itx rig before september or october, but if you get one Bluefront, I'd love to hear anything you have to report.

review looks good, but addressing your concern on power, bear in mind that these measurements are conducted with a 3.5" seagate 250GB hard drive, so you can subtract 12-15 Watts to get the figures for the board alone, making:
Idle: 22W
Load: 27W
which are more pleasurable figures considering this is probably AC power draw they measure.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:54 pm

kinda expensive...

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:44 am

The price is not so bad when you think about it. The CPU is included, as is the CPU heatsink. You don't need a fan on the heatsink, or a fan controller either.....plus you get a DVI output thrown in for free. Not bad.

I also am surprised so few SPCR rigs are Mini-ITX. Unless you're a gamer, who needs more power, this form factor can't be beat for quietness.....

Poodle · Post by **Poodle** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:17 pm

They should fit them with PCIe and not PCI... Then they could be great for file servers.

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:00 pm

I thought that myself.... but then I decided the the availability of parts for PCI is superior to that for PCIe in all aspects except video cards.... however in a year or 2 I have no doubt the PCIe would make more sense.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:27 pm

to be honest, the only good thing about this board that i see is a dvi port...

sata is good too, now that i think about it. can do without it though.

btw, ewiz doesn't have it now, found it on logicsupply:

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_7199

on the other hand, compared to the "ugly" board, or whatever the heck it's name:

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/d201gly

i am not so sure sata worth the extra $. dvi, yah, probably.

the ugly pulls 30w desktop and 40w load with 2.5" hd, a cd-rom and 2 fans; not as good as the board in question but it's faster as well.

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:41 am

Obviously the Intel board needs a fan.....or a problematic heatsink replacement. This VIA board is designed fanless......

Also the Intel board has no hardware temp monitoring ability.....so I read. This one does. It's a toss-up though, because of the price difference.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:55 am

actually, it reads the temps with the coretemp.

and sink replacement is very easy - it's the usual intel northbridge spring with hooks so almost any northbridge sink will work just fine. put a large enough one on and you can ran it fanless. i am going to try it soon, actually; i'll keep you posted.

mcoleg · Post by **mcoleg** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:23 am

yep, runs fine fanless. i slapped this one on:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5934/ ... ?tl=g40c16

without hooking up the fan. it's inside a tiny itx case with a 80mm exhaust fan that's 9-volted and temperature controlled; barely moves any air.

frank2003 · Post by **frank2003** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:49 am

For those interested in mini-itx, SPCR did an extensive review of the Via Epia EN12000E last year: http://www.silentpcreview.com/article609-page1.html

It's perfect for buiding a ultra quiet file server/PVR in a small mini-itx enclosure that runs 24/7.