mini-itx with both PCI and PCI-e?
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mini-itx with both PCI and PCI-e?
Are there any mini-itx board with two expantion slot, one PCI, one PCI-e? I know MSI Fuzzy has some with intel chipsets (old 965) but are there other? Preferably something that can do hybrid cross-fire or hybrid SLI.
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Mini-ITX specification only allows 1 expansion slot. AMD's DTX specification allowed 2 expansion slots. Intel's FlexATX allowed 3 expansion slots. MicroATX is 4 expansion slots. All of these share the standard ATX I/O plate area.Spare Tire wrote:Are there any mini-itx board with two expantion slot, one PCI, one PCI-e? I know MSI Fuzzy has some with intel chipsets (old 965) but are there other? Preferably something that can do hybrid cross-fire or hybrid SLI.
If you check the MSI mini-ITX boards, you'll noticed that a few have a 2nd slot beside the first one. The second slot is not usable in any standard ATX form factor case but works if you have a bunch of riser cards going somewhere. The only other board make I've known that does that is Kontron (which is very expensive to and difficult to buy).
But why do you even need SLI/X-fire? AMD has the 4870x2 cards which does it on the card itself, and it sounded like nVidia were considering their own version of a dual-GPU card.
But why do you even need SLI/X-fire? AMD has the 4870x2 cards which does it on the card itself, and it sounded like nVidia were considering their own version of a dual-GPU card.
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The power supply of my mini-itx case tops out at 120W, 4870x2 would overshoot this by a mile, and being a 2 slot solution, it'll take up the second expand for the PCI (which defeats the whole purpose of me looking for a mini-itx board with a PCI and a PCI-e).
How badass a CPU and GPU do you want to cram into a mini-itx case?
As for riser cards, not a problem, they go for cheap enough on ebay, even the ones that are pci-e/pci stacked combo.
How badass a CPU and GPU do you want to cram into a mini-itx case?
As for riser cards, not a problem, they go for cheap enough on ebay, even the ones that are pci-e/pci stacked combo.
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sorry for digging up such an old thread, but just wanted to chime in, if anyone's looking for something similar in the future. one of the best ways, i reckon, to find something suitable is to check out what companies like HP and Dell are using in their SFF machines.
For example, being in the same boat as the OP [although not worried about hybrid SLI/etc] i came across the Asus M2NC51-AR, as used in some HP slimline machines. I know it's not a recent chipset, but the venerable geforce 6150LE still gets the job done, and with a 65W [max] CPU and mild discrete graphics card, media centre duties are covered =)
but yes, maybe not everyone's cuppa, but possibly a good place to start. good luck!
For example, being in the same boat as the OP [although not worried about hybrid SLI/etc] i came across the Asus M2NC51-AR, as used in some HP slimline machines. I know it's not a recent chipset, but the venerable geforce 6150LE still gets the job done, and with a 65W [max] CPU and mild discrete graphics card, media centre duties are covered =)
but yes, maybe not everyone's cuppa, but possibly a good place to start. good luck!
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How about this one:
http://us.kontron.com/products/boards+a ... 5mitx.html
But I think you need a riser card to use both slots (or a Dremel for the case).
http://us.kontron.com/products/boards+a ... 5mitx.html
But I think you need a riser card to use both slots (or a Dremel for the case).